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Craft: The author used unreliable first-person point of view of a SecUnit as well as dialogue to get her theme across. I thought of her bot character as female while reading it.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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"I didn’t turn my helmet toward him because that can be intimidating and it’s especially important for me to resist that urge. 'I carefully monitor my own systems.' What else did he think I was going to say? It didn’t matter; I’m not refundable." (49)

"He might have been compared to a summer’s day, particularly the
last hours of one, and while he lacked a tennis racket or a sail bag the impression was
definitely one of youth, sport, and clement weather."

and

"He had an
inexplicable contempt for men who did not hurl themselves into pools."

and

"Here he was exposed to the ridicule
of the north-bound traffic, but after ten or fifteen minutes he was able to cross."

from, "The Swimmer"
John Cheever

"Capiche..."
from "Bullet in the Brain"
Tobias Wolff