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System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries

by Martha Wells

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A colony in peril, and a SecUnit out of sorts

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    Washington Post bestseller

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A colony in peril, and a SecUnit out of sorts

A rescue mission to a newly colonized planet becomes a corporate power struggle when Barish-Estranza seeks control of the colony and its people. Murderbot is caught between the colonists’ danger and its own malfunctioning systems, while ART’s crew and humans from Preservation work to protect them. The setup brings the series’ concerns with corporate exploitation and the treatment of human workers into a crisis shaped by Murderbot’s uncertain ability to act. The publisher places this installment after *Network Effect* and lists it as part of the Murderbot Diaries, so its situation builds on events from an earlier entry.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following the Murderbot Diaries, especially after *Network Effect*.
  • Science-fiction readers interested in corporate power, colonization, and human–machine relationships.
  • Readers seeking an action-adventure premise centered on a malfunctioning SecUnit.

Themes

Corporate exploitationColonization and controlHuman–machine relationshipsAgency and malfunction

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Book overview

A New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells'sbestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

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.

The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse

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