ReviewsPraise for The Murderbot Diaries "I love Murderbot!" --Ann Leckie"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." --LocusPraise for The Murderbot Diaries"I love Murderbot!" --Ann Leckie"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
SynopsisNow an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård. The first two novellas in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time! "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." First, read the story that started the Murderbot phenomenon in All Systems Red! 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 (and to watch its favorite show in its downtime.) But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth. Then, In Artificial Condition Murderbot teams up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), and together, they infiltrate the mining facility where Murderbot went rogue to try to understand its past. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...