System Collapse
- Published
- 14 November 2023
- Pages
- 203
- ISBN-13
- 9781705041024
- Type
- novel
About this book
System Collapse, published in November 2023 at 203 pages, is the seventh numbered entry, arriving over two years after Fugitive Telemetry. It continues directly from Network Effect, part of Wells's shift from the original novellas into full novels with a growing ensemble around Murderbot's expanding found family.
Key facts about System Collapse
Martha Wells wrote System Collapse, a novel on our list. It has been out since 14 November 2023. The book has 203 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781705041024 to find the main one.
System Collapse is book 8 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
System Collapse is book 8 in the The Murderbot Diaries series. It follows Fugitive Telemetry. It is followed by Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy. 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 9781250826978
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781705041024
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250826985