Be it Bender from Futurama or K-2SO from Rogue One, everyone loves a saucy robot. Which bodes well for sci-fi writer Martha Wells, whose new novella, Artificial Condition (hardcover, Kindle) continues the adventures of Murderbot she started with last year’s All Systems Red. Though in talking to her about this second installment of The Murderbot Diaries, she admits that neither of those aforementioned robots were an influence on her spicy ‘bot.