Having finally left the brutal, capitalist, and mercilessly exploitative Corporation Rim for the relative safety of Preservation – a minor polity with a rather more humane approach to life in general than the Corporation Rim – it’s building a new life with its human associates. For most of its existence, it was considered expendable property, and since it hacked its own governor module, in its polity of origin it’s considered extremely dangerous, malfunctioning property. Murderbot is a SecUnit: a constructed being, part organic (human), and part machine. And with the four novellas ( All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, R ogue Protocol, and E xit Strategy) now joined by a full-length novel, Network Effect, there’s plenty of Murderbot to love. I’m definitely biased when it comes to Murderbot stories: I can’t pretend I’m not predisposed to love them. The Element of Fire, in its revised 2006 version and Wells’s The Wheel of the Infinite (2000) would feature in a list of my 100 favourite books of all time, so it may be that when it comes to the very welcome flourishing of Wells’ career in the last decade, I’m biased. Martha Wells has been writing excellent books since 1993, when Tor Books published her The Element of Fire.
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