Network Effect
- Published
- 5 May 2020
- Pages
- 333
- ISBN-13
- 9781980021711
- Type
- novel
About this book
Network Effect, published in May 2020, marks Martha Wells's shift to full novel length at 333 pages, roughly double any of the four novellas that preceded it.
Key facts about Network Effect
Network Effect is a novel by Martha Wells. Readers have had it since 5 May 2020. It runs to 333 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Network Effect. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781980021711 to find the main one.
Network Effect is book 5 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
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250229847
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781980021711
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250229854