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System Collapse

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7

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System Collapse

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
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The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure!

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

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.

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.

©2023 Martha Wells (P)2023 Recorded Books Adventure Science Fiction Fiction

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A bit short but classic internal murderbot dialogue and Ai/ Human moral dilemmas… looking forward to the next instalment

Alien technology, robots and feelings

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The narration and story continue to be excellent in this series, but there were a few editing/production issues in this one (chapter seven notably). Nothing detrimental but unusual enough to note considering the rest of this series had no such hiccups. Not enough to spoil the experience though!

Another excellent story, some sound issues

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If you went trough the books in order the previous one was a miss.
This is the continuation of the 5'th book.
They are on the same planet and the story continues directly.
Good book but not the mysterious mission ART mentioned in 5?

This is the actual 6'th book

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After the slightly meh feeling of Fugitive Telemetry, this story is back on form and then some. This instalment follows directly on from Network Effect, so much so that if you're kinda fuzzy on how that one ended, you'll need to recap.

Murderbot is under the weather. Hardly surprising really when you consider what happened in Network Effect. And that leads to doubts and worries - which isn't good for a security consultant construct. It doesn't help that they're all still dealing with the same planet, alien remnants and all.

It has more humans to look after. To have feelings and emotions about. I love how Martha Wells makes us think about ties and loyalty and accepting that others care under the guise of Murderbot's self-explorations. Don't worry - there's still plenty of the snark and cynicism which makes it such a perfect character.

By now, Kevin R Free is Murderbot. He inhabits the part, knowing when to add pauses, hesitations, and everything else that elevates the text into a performance.

Absolutely back on form

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I really like the series, my biggest issue that for the price they’re not long.

Good exploration of humanity

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