{"id":43285,"date":"2025-09-04T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43285"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:55:38","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-now-its-8-in-the-leadership-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/09\/04\/new-on-supernatural-underground-now-its-8-in-the-leadership-series\/","title":{"rendered":"New On Supernatural Underground Now &#8212; It&#8217;s #8 in the Leadership Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the leader is &#8212; drum roll! &#8212; Dr Mensah from the <strong>Murderbot<\/strong> series by Martha Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Although the focus of this particular post is <strong><em>All Systems Red<\/em><\/strong>, the novella that kicked everything off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43280\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/All-Systems-Red-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/All-Systems-Red-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/All-Systems-Red-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/All-Systems-Red.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a great fan of Murderbot, and Dr Mensah really is a great leader &#8212; <em>and<\/em> intrepid galactic explorer, according to Murderbot. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43286\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43286\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43286\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dr-Mensah-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dr-Mensah-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dr-Mensah-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dr-Mensah-1.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mensah, in the TV show<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you would like to find out all the reasons why I think so, then head on over to the SU and check out the post:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Mensah: Another Great Leader in the Speculative Fiction &#8216;Verse<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the leader is &#8212; drum roll! &#8212; Dr Mensah from the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. Although the focus of this particular post is All Systems Red, the novella that kicked everything off. I am a great fan of Murderbot, and Dr Mensah really is a great leader &#8212; and intrepid galactic explorer, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43288,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285\/revisions\/43288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}