System Collapse

Martha Wells

Book 7 of The Murderbot Diaries

Language: English

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: Nov 13, 2023

Description:

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling 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.

  • The Murderbot Diaries
    All Systems Red
    Artificial Condition
    Rogue Protocol
    Exit Strategy
    Network Effect
    Fugitive Telemetry
    System Collapse

Review

An Indie Next Pick!

A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!

“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

Praise 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

“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 million-selling New York Times and USA Today- bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards. 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.