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Network Effect

Book 5 of The Murderbot Diaries

  • 333 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2020
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.

You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.

Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.

Good for readers who want: artificial intelligence and space travel.

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Life on other planets
  • Androids
  • Robots
  • Human-computer interaction

2 About Martha Wells

Born 1964

Martha Wells (born September 1, 1964) is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of science fiction and fantasy (SF/F) novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on SF/F subjects. Her novels have been translated into thirty languages. Wells credits her academic background in anthropology for her interest in designing complex, realistically detailed societies within her novels.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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