“Clever, inventive, brutal when it needs to be, and compassionate without ever being sentimental.” -Kate Elliott, author of the Spirit Walker trilogy Come for the gunfights on other planets, but stay for the finely drawn portrait of a deadly robot whose smartass goodness will give you hope for the future of humanity." -Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous "The Murderbot series is a heart-pounding thriller that never lets up, but it's also one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read. “I love Murderbot!” -Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice 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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