A minor point I love about the murderbot diaries is the fact that, due to the recyclers not being the ultrafuturistic-star-trek type that take things apart subatomic-particle-by-subatomic-particle is that there's textually a recognizable style of mending that they produce.
Like, this is not a series that shies away from empersoning technology. Different types of bots and constructs have their own ways of being, and of thinking, and their own interests and motives and goals. I'd like to think this extends to the recycler systems.
What, in greater detail, do they do? How do they work? How do they live when there's no recycling to be done? In the books, they're not exactly something the characters give much thought beyond their existence as an appliance. Hmm, why does that sound familiar?
I want to talk to the recyclers. I want to appreciate their art and show them my own.
