There’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1

Sooo much more. The Baroque Cycle is like Cryptonomicon squared.

Pretty much Jack Shaftoe’s storyline in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle

This is a plot point in The Accidental Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine; the main character

I bought this and am reading The Lost Cause now, and it’s really good! An actually hopeful near future that deals with climate collapse with open eyes.

Thanks for posting this! I didn’t know about it and was just about to buy The Lost Cause.

It’s a tough role to cast, since the books never describe what Murderbot looks like at all, beyond “has a face” and “has short hair but no body hair” and “some organic parts on arms but not on legs”. And Murderbot can pass as human if someone doesn’t know what SecUnits look like. No indication of height, build, complexion, features, nothing. So anyone they cast is going to look wrong to a bunch of readers because their mental pictures can vary so widely.

Mine is somewhere between Gwendolyn Christie and Robocop. But I like Alexander Skarsgard and I’ll definitely watch this. He has a good “I am 100% done with everyone’s nonsense” expression, which is vital.

Me too, but the stupid humans keep doing stupid stuff.

The article said 3 times that Murderbot is an android; Murderbot is not an android, it’s a cyborg or construct (with both organic and inorganic parts). Geez.

Or unwrapped them at parties to see what was inside.