That was back in 2023. But now there's a Murderbot TV series and it, too, is gloriously woke. While still having a lot of guns.
It was such a thrill to see much of the first book in the Murderbot Diaries series brought to life. The book series is exciting (which is why I've listened to it on audio at least five times all the way through) and it was smart of the TV show producers to trust the original source material and not make too many changes.
And most of the changes they did make are great - like showing snippets from "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon" - which now has a theme song - and a scene, not in the series, in which Murderbot hallucinates it's a character on Sanctuary Moon. So great.
And I'm so happy for author Martha Wells, who has toiled in the field of genre fiction for decades without making much headway, and then suddenly she had a massive hit. Wells is around the same age as me, which makes her, according to some behavioral geneticists, an "old white lady."
It seems unlikely that the racists I write about on Pinkerite would like the Murderbot universe, given that it is so woke, but maybe they'll like the TV series because although Wells imagined Murderbot with medium-dark skin, Alexander Skarsgård, the Swedish actor playing the character in the series, is pretty pale. All those racists adore "Western Civilization" and have a fetish for whiteness and blondness.
But the Preservation Aux crew of the TV series is exactly as described in the books - which is to say, an absolute nightmare for racists.
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| The Preservation Aux team - the only white-ish person here is Guarathin, far back center. |
Martha Wells is on Bluesky and if you are too, you should follow her.
