Sophia Rose Reviews- Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells

 

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells

#2.5 The Murderbot Diaries

Sci-Fi

Publisher:  Tor Books

Published:  7.11.25

Pages:  34

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: ebook

Source:  purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Synopsis:

Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...

 

Sophia Rose's Review:

The Murderbot Diaries world is expanding to include several new characters and I was delighted to get a short story from Iris' point of view and time with her, her crew, and A.R.T. on a mission adventure.

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy is #7.5 in the Murderbot Diary series, but chronologically takes place just after the events of #2 Artificial Condition though it has more depth when read following the events of System Collapse after these characters are introduced and developed.

 

Rapport picks up with A.R.T.'s crew and some scholars on a mission to a Corporate Rim Station to investigate some artifacts a section of the station rumored to be Pre-Corporate Rim.

There is always danger when entering the CR for a mission and this is no exception. Iris needs to be on her game, but she's distracted. Something's been up with Peri since he came back from his last solo mission.

Rapport is short, but it is mighty. I loved the further insight into the Corporates from Iris' perspective, seeing her and the crew on one of the missions ART told SecUnit about, getting ART’s perspective on meeting SecUnit, and also seeing from the inside the relationship between Iris and ART. A fabulous interlude in the grand story arc.

 

Author Bio:

Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, an Alex Award, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the World Fantasy Award ballot, the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in thirty languages.

She is also a consulting producer on the Murderbot series for Apple TV+.

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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