The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 3 - by Martha Wells (Paperback)

About the Book

"System Collapse: follows the events of Network Effect, where Murderbot, ART, and the humans from Preservation are work[ing] to protect a human colony from being abducted by the Barish-Estranza Corporation. 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!"--

Book Synopsis

The adventures of Murderbot continue in the fifth and sixth novellas from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Martha Wells, collected in paperback for the first time!

"No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall."

In Fugitive Telemetry, when Murderbot discovers a body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people--who knew?)

System Collapse follows the events of Network Effect, where Murderbot, ART, and the humans from Preservation are work to protect a human colony from being abducted by the Barish-Estranza Corporation. 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!

Review Quotes

Praise for Fugitive Telemetry

A Locus Award Finalist!

"Martha Wells' newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, Fugitive Telemetry, is a lot of things that you probably don't expect. It is an unadorned whodunit. A cozy mystery garlanded with plasma cannons and spaceships... One of Wells' superpowers has long been her ability to pack an epic's worth of material into a very small package." --NPR

"Wells... creates a main character who is addictive... Murderbot continues to bring intelligence and acerbic commentary on humanity to the forefront." --Library Journal

"Murderbot's wry observations of human behavior are as humorous as ever and the mystery is thoroughly satisfying. This is another winning series installment." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for System Collapse

A Finalist for the Locus Award!

An Indie Next Pick!

A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!

A Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award!

Praise for The Murderbot Diaries

"The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I've enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!" --N. K. Jemisin

"We are all a little bit Murderbot."--NPR

"If you need something light, a little violent and laugh-out-loud hilarious, dive into this series: You may find that you have more in common with Murderbot than you think." --Liz Braswell, The Wall Street Journal

"Readers won't miss the wall-to-wall action that defined the series from its beginning. The characters and the world building remain engrossing and rewarding." --Booklist, starred review

"I might have a little bit of a thing for a robot. Its name is Murderbot... Network Effect [is] great." --Wired

"I can think of no better company than this paranoid android." --The New Scientist

"Murderbot, with its on-point observations and addictive interior monologues, is easily one of my favorite characters in SF... Highly recommended." --Charles de Lint for Fantasy & Science Fiction

"I could read about Murderbot all week." --Locus

About the Author

MARTHA WELLS has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, and was adapted into an Apple Original TV series. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.