The Murderbot Diaries · Book 4

Exit Strategy

Published
2 October 2018
Pages
182
ISBN-13
9781501999994
Type
novella
Cover of Exit Strategy

About this book

Exit Strategy closed out the first year of rapid-fire Murderbot novellas in October 2018, running 182 pages -- the longest of the initial four -- after Rogue Protocol.

Key facts about Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy is a novella by Martha Wells. Readers have had it since 2 October 2018. It runs to 182 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Exit Strategy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781501999994 to find the main one.

Exit Strategy is book 4 of 10 in The Murderbot Diaries series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with All Systems Red (2017). Platform Decay is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 May 2026.

Additionally, Martha Wells writes The Books of Ile-Rien, The Books of the Raksura and The Rising World as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Platform Decay is the latest published Martha Wells book on file, from 5 May 2026.

About Martha Wells

Martha Wells is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose Murderbot Diaries has become one of the genre's most acclaimed recent series, following a self-hacked security android -- who privately calls itself Murderbot -- as it tries to watch its favorite soap operas in peace while reluctantly getting drawn into protecting the humans it's contracted to guard. See every Martha Wells book in order.

Its place in The Murderbot Diaries

Exit Strategy is book 4 in the The Murderbot Diaries series. It follows Rogue Protocol. It is followed by Network Effect. See the full The Murderbot Diaries reading order.

A self-aware security android has hacked its own governor module so it can no longer be forced to follow orders — and it uses that freedom mostly to hide in its allotted crate and watch downloaded soap operas, because dealing with the humans it's supposed to protect is exhausting. It calls itself Murderbot. When a corporate survey mission it's guarding goes wrong, Murderbot's competence, dry sarcasm and deep discomfort with human attachment drag it into a string of conspiracies it would much rather avoid — while…

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