All Systems Red by Martha Wells

All Systems Red

The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

Tor/Forge · Print & ebook · May 2, 2017

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.

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Who it’s for
A brisk, self-aware voice makes the sci-fi crime setup feel oddly intimate and easy to keep.
Genres
Androids & AI Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Adventure, Space Exploration Fiction
Published
Tor/Forge, May 2, 2017

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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård. A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.

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“As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse

Sharp, Strange Fun

A brisk, self-aware voice makes the sci-fi crime setup feel oddly intimate and easy to keep.

Come here for

  • dryly sharp AI narration
  • crime-adjacent sci-fi with room to talk

Expect

  • immersion with a sly edge
  • plenty to discuss after

Where it sits

Androids & AI Science Fiction96%
Space Exploration Fiction51%
Sci-Fi Adventure36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Sci-Fi Crime
  • Androids & AI Science Fiction
Authors
Martha Wells
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
May 2, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Sci-Fi Adventure