System Collapse

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7

De: Martha Wells

Narrado por: Kevin R. Free

The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure!

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.

Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

But there's something wrong with Murderbot; it isn't running within normal operational parameters. ART's crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza's SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they're going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what's wrong with itself, and fast!

Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

©2023 Martha Wells (P)2023 Recorded Books

Murderbot FTW

Loved it! Snarky, thoughtful, full of both action and introspection It is everything we have come to expect from our favorite Sec Unit, ART and their people.

I should’ve reread Network Effects

This book is really the second half of the story started in Network Effects, which I didn’t reread before starting this book. I should have. System Collapse starts with Murderbot recounting current events with some deliberate redactions. I thought I didn’t understand what was being glossed over because I must have forgot a point from Network Effects. I almost stopped listening to this book to retrace the last one. Later on, I learned that understanding of the redactions comes solely in this book. Sound confusing? It was, but not miserably so.

It’s a good listen. There are some seeds planted here for what we may see in the future, which is fun.

Books 5 and 6 seem to be out of order..

Enjoying the story but it feels like book 6 comes before book 5. Especially since book 7 leads off of book 5 and book 5 jumps around a lot and doesn't really make sense until you listen to book 6. So if you want 5 to make sense listen to 6 first. It may help you follow the story line a little better.

more snark

I love the interactions between murderbot and art they're so snarky just enough action to keep you interested plenty of drama and thought provoking storytelling another great book in the murderbot series

Get a physical copy too!

Seriously, this is the best sci-fi series I’ve ever read, and Kevin R. Free does such an amazing job that when I’m reading the hard copies I hear his voice.

My only complaint is how short each story is (Network effect excluded) but that just means I have time to listen to the whole series from start to finish every time there is a new release. It takes about 2 days.