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System Collapse

Book 7 of The Murderbot Diaries

  • 203 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2023
  • 3 editions

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1 About this book

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits.

But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, artificial intelligence, and robots.

  • Science fiction
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Robots
  • Life on other planets
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Androids

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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