Oh, even though technically Murderbot has no gender, I always hear her voice in my head as female, so I’m going to go with that. We continue to see Murderbot evolve becoming, in their/her own way, more “human” though I’m sure she would deny that. It won the 2021 Nebula award and a bunch of other accolades and in this case, they were well deserved (In my experience, that’s not always the case).
It’s also the first novel-length book in the series, with one through four being novellas or novelettes (my reviews on the rest of the series can be found here). It’s the fifth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. I finished Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel yesterday morning. If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid - a self-aware SecUnit that.Cover art for Martha Wells’ novel “Network Effect” IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid - a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot." Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.īut when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best NovellaĪ murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
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