So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the Gra圜ris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. The case against the too-big-to-fail Gra圜ris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Hugo Award Winner for Best Novella, Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novella, USA Today Bestseller, Locus Award Winner for Best Novella A past that caused it to christen itself 'Murderbot.' But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. Dick Award Finalist, New York Times Bestseller for Audio Nebula Award Winner for Best Novella, ALA/YALSA Alex Award Winner, Locus Award Winner for Best Novella, Hugo Award Winner for Best Novella, Philip K.

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. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. 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. Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel, Locus Award Winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel, New York Times Bestseller.įollowing 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. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

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