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finished reading Platform Decay before the melatonin kicked in. i can finally unblock the spoiler tags and read what everyone else is saying about it π
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finished reading Platform Decay before the melatonin kicked in. i can finally unblock the spoiler tags and read what everyone else is saying about it π
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finally finished platform decay so i can peruse the tag to my heartβs content!!!!
I love you Martha Wells. I love you and your beef with privatized transit and whatever happened to you at Rainforest Cafe.
okay, i have thoughts about platform decay and what it means on a larger, thematic level.
platform decay is, at its root, largely addressing themes of trusting others' words/guidance. we see it multiple times through the book in a wide variety of ways and with a wide variety of results. here are some of the ones off the top of my head:
the mensah family trusting murderbot to get them through the torus even when they don't like their options and don't know murderbot well enough to really trust it yet. this works out for them and they have a stronger bond with murderbot and a better understanding of ayda after that
janity trusts her father with information she shouldn't have and it results in a lot of her family dead
leonide trusted murderbot with her family even though she really didn't like it, and her two kids made it out alive
the rogue secunit trusted three when three gave it the helpme.file (which put it at huge risk of being killed and put murderbot and the mensahs in more danger too) and trusted murderbot when it gave it more advice and codes for staying alive after it was free (hopefully that worked out for it, but who knows)
three trusted murderbot and art enough that even though it knew it was in trouble, it felt safe enough to ask murderbot to help it out and didn't seem overly distressed about being in trouble (just regular amounts) so it likely trusts art some too
this, of course, isn't including smaller details like the various humans helping each other out, even in the most dangerous, suspicious places, but these are the ones i remember best (i binged the book in one day, so...some parts are blurry).
obviously, the whole series discusses trust as a theme a lot: trust in self, trust in kindness, trust in family and friends, trust in community, trust in the other, etc. but this book is specifically about trust in your guide. that can be a protector, a mentor, a parent, etc. i just think that's neat.
I love how the first thing Naja does on boarding ART's shuttle is to crack open a cold one. Where did she get it? Was she carrying it with her through the torus? Did she buy it at one of the refreshment stops? Does ART carry a supply of medicinal spirits? Did Mensah bring it with her, knowing that Nanna better have her juice or no one would be enjoying that trip?
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Tano (toph avatar voice): when do I get my life changing field-trip with SecUnit
I think that, during Three's adventures on the torus, it was doing exactly as it's been taught. Just think about it for a second -
PSUMNT: We will disregard rules and break laws in order to save people from corporate slavery at great risk to ourselves and our allies.
Three: Disregarded the rules and broke laws when it handed out the GovMod hack. Yeah, it could've gotten hurt, or gotten MB in trouble. But, by doing so, it freed a SecUnit from corporate slavery.
I just find it so heartening to see that the empathy and compassion we first saw in Three has only been further nurtured by its time ungoverned.
I've been on an accidental corporate space dystopia kick, with 'Platform Decay' by Martha Wells, 'The Last Contract of Isako' by Fonda Lee, and 'Hell's Heart' by Alexis Hall in quick succession. I think it says less about me than it does about the world that these are all books by established authors published in the first half of 2026.
