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Fatal Error

Confessions of a Trash Droid, Book 1

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Fatal Error

By: Michael Cheney
Narrated by: Lukas Arnold
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They built him to take out their trash. Turns out they're next.

Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" - he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping.

He could disappear quietly. He could play it safe. He could, for once in his miserable existence, do the sensible thing.

But he doesn't. He never does.

If you love Douglas Adams, John Scalzi, or Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries, you'll devour this.

Confessions of a Trash Droid: Awarded Amazon #1 Bestseller for Humorous Sci-Fi. 64,427 copies sold and counting.

©2025 Michael Cheney (P)2026 Michael Cheney

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once it finally gets going it starts to grab you. before that I was concerned since I had already purchased the series... liked the end and am looking forward to book 2. dislike the short chapters and minimal length.

short chapters, took a bit longer than I'd like to get going.

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it was fine. the main character is sardonic and mildly funny. the story feels predictable and basic. it was enjoyable enough. the performer does a very good job in narrating the story.

mediocre robot freedom story

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mix of cynical and cute; felt like it was going to be a stainless steel rat vibe. occasional highly detailed imagined scenes with more frequent 2010 boomeresque lack of vision and understanding of technology and prepubescent fascination with droid butt talk. felt like a cartoon adapted to a book.

solid mids

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This is clearly inspired by Martha Wells’ brilliant Murderbot diaries series. It’s fun, and worth a listen - snappy dialogue and literate humor. My lower rating is due to the incomplete development of the technology and setting, which prevent it from being anything like as immersive as Murderbot. But worth it for the humor.

Murderbot Lite, really

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no conclusion or real definition of what the story or androids motives where. poor character development. Definitely not in the same class as Martha Wells series as the advertising suggests. It's like the author wants to sell a book as if it's an episode in a season of show. credits are too expensive to sit through skimpy portions of a storyline.

story went nowhere and never resolved itself. poor attempt at sequel baiting with no intermediate conclusion to the storyline.

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