![]() ![]() Who is pulling the strings? What is the truth underlying Murderbot’s fragmented memory? Image by Dr StClaire from Pixabay Soon enough, the mission begins to go south. Our antihero is not all that it seems, confessing to the reader, “…as a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” It would rather consume about 35,000 hours of media than go on a murdering rampage. The narrator is a sarcastic, introverted, antisocial protagonist with a dry sense of humour - designed to protect humans on planet-surveying missions. These cyborgs are fitted with a governing module that renders them unable to refuse clients’ directives while also spying on them for the company. The company also offers security units (murderbots) for protection. Wells creates an intriguing world where large for-profit corporations provide interplanetary exploration groups with needed supplies and transport. In 2021, Wells published Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) the fifth novella in the series, with another three novellas still to follow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries is a sci-fi series consisting of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2), Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3), Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4), and the novel: Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5). “murderbot + actual human = awkwardness.” ~ Martha Wells, All Systems Red ![]()
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