System Collapse

This book might be part of the The 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 …

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

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.

2 editions

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2023 by Tordotcom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-82697-8
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No Never reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Great followup to Network Effect

4 stars

Took me a second to get back into murderbot after a short break in those stories and because this one picks up where Network Effect left off, not Fugitive Telemetry. It was absolutely worth the little confusion though, because I really enjoyed this one once more, seeing beloved SecUnit deal with emotions and [redacted] in that weird neurotissue thing was a nice little change of pace to the earlier, very confident stories. Highly recommend this one to everyone who got this deep into the Murderbot Diaries in the first place!