A new york times bestseller · a washington post bestseller · a usa today bestseller
Everyone’s favorite lethal secunit is back in the next installment in martha wells’s bestselling 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.