System Collapse
By Martha Wells
- Release Date: 2023-11-14
- Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Description
A New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
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.
The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
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Reviews
Excellent adventure
4By jwellingtonbNice to see Murderbot think his way out of some of the situations in this book. It seems like it airdropped into one of the earlier books to me, but it was still a good story.A bit of an outlier in the series
3By DvlrbbtSomewhat disjointed at the start, and if you’re not familiar with the other books potentially incomprehensible at times, until about 3/4 in where it picks up the normal rhythm and flow of the series and becomes significantly more enjoyable. Overall I enjoyed it, but I can understand where the negative reviews are coming from, particularly if this is your first exposure to the series.Great read
5By tufffluffGood characters and great writing. All the murderbot books are very good.Confused and boring
1By StoryDelverTalky talky endless talky without even some character development to relieve the boredom of nothing happening. Ug. What a waste of a story. Should’ve been dumped and rewritten from scratch with some actual story/char arcs.Murderbot
4By &GumbyA really good series of sci-fi novels. All good stand alone books and parts of a well constructed series.Murderbot is my happy place.
5By lawyer kimThinking about this series makes me have emotions. And I hate that.Murderbot is the most present narrator imaginable
5By Ekm1934Murderbot is the opposite of an unreliable narrator - it’s a scrambled mess of a narrator and an equally scrambled mess of a hero. And that’s why it’s so delightful. Another wonderful installment.Worst of The Series
1By MaopuckWhat a complete and utter disappointmentTedious
1By toddski111The book and frankly much of the series is quite repetitive. 1/3 what happened in the previous books 1/3 technical gibberish that doesn’t push the story forward and 1/3 action.Murderbot suffers and saves the day again!
5By DrCousAnother step in Murderbot’s personal evolution, and each installment just makes me happy. Tied for second favorite sci-fi series/universes of all time for me (with Cherryh’s Foreigner and just behind Banks’s Culture).Great
5By michaeldavideGreat next entry in seriesCan’t get enough
5By purerenegadeNever expected MB to save the day as a movie producer!What’s up with the editing?
4By DowntownClaytonBrownWhat’s up with the punctuation problems? Hundreds, if not thousands, of comma splices / run-on sentences. Love the Murderbot series, but this was distracting. Previous books did not have this problem. Did someone forget to turn on Grammar Checker in Microsoft Word?The Second Full Murderbot Novel, and the Seventh in the Series
5By Prairie_Dog“System Collapse” is the second full novel and the seventh work in Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries Series. Most of the previous installments have been novellas. This second longer work has allowed Ms. Wells to tell a more complex story with a larger setting. I personally liked the greater scope of these novels. Our favorite SecUnit has been living with its humans on the world of Preservation. Here, it is more than property. People keep acting as if it is an actual person, which causes it all kinds of emotions. Emotions aren’t its strong suit, but it is learning to deal with them. What hasn’t changed is its dry sense of humor, and its sarcastic internal monologue. In this novel, Murderbot and some of his humans are on a colony world that’s having an unsustainable problem with alien contamination. They are in the process of trying to get the colonists to evacuate, when some corporate representatives show up. Then they learn about a second colony site that needs to evacuated as well. Of course things go spectacularly wrong, and Murderbot has to find some way to keep his people safe. This full novel was just as absorbing and exciting as the previous works. The larger setting was interesting, because the reader was able to see many facets of the mystery that the second colony site posed. Another great installment in the Murderbot Diaries, which left me wanting more. Hopefully, we will see more Murderbot in the near future.Murderbot is an Engaging and Humorous Character.
5By PupplaysRPGThe story is great. Similar to others and a little short for my satisfaction because it gets finished in one setting. Easy reading. Would have liked it to have a little more complexity and read a little longer. Still, I will always read her books and can’t wait for the next one.Ok
4By davep136Pretty good, but it didn’t quite hang together as well as previous books in the series.System Collapse
1By NacNac mikeI have enjoyed all of the books in this series, except this one. It doesn’t have any of the spark the others had. It was like she was phoning it in. Mention everybody from previous books, but really not much plot, and no excitement. I read it, but all the time was hoping for something “Murderbotery” to happen. Boring!
