Network Effect

Its place in The Murderbot Diaries

Network Effect is book 5 in the The Murderbot Diaries series. It follows Exit Strategy. It is followed by Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory. 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…