The Murderbot Diaries · Book 8
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.
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
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