Hey everyone! It’s your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor ringing in 2024 with you. I hope you’ve had a good break (if you got one), spent some time with loved ones, or just did nothing but catch up on some reading.
System Collapse by Martha Wells sends Murderbot on a fast-paced mission: Spoiler-free Review
Martha Wells’ latest installment in The Murderbot Diaries comes out today, November 14 from Tor! System Collapse is a quick-paced and satisfying escapade that takes place almost immediately after the novel Network Effect leaves off.
2021 Hugo Award Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Martha Wells’ Murderbot series must surely be counted among the biggest hits of contemporary science fiction. The story of an artificial being – half-machine and half-clone – who became a freelance bodyguard was originally told over the course of four novellas: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy; with Network Effect, it…
Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.
With the upcoming release of Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, I have been thinking about how Murderbot explores more and more of what it means to be a person in each book. Specifically, I’m thinking about the family relationships it encounters and participates in in Network Effect,…
Network Effect Catapults Murderbot into the Wider Universe: Spoiler-free Review
Network Effect is the fifth and as-yet longest installment in the adventures of Murderbot by Martha Wells, introduced in the multiple award-winning novella All Systems Red in 2017. The novel is a great addition to the series, giving readers exactly more of what we love from the Murderbot books: a beloved and sarcastic unreliable narrator,…
Book Beat: Arthur A. Levine Leaves Scholastic, Lambda Finalists, and More Murderbot!
Hello Book Lovers! It’s Christa here, and it’s Thursday, which means it’s time to talk about all of the bookish news from the previous week. For this Book Beat, there have been some award announcements, some industry shuffling, and some exciting adaptation news. So, let’s dive right in!
Rogue Protocol: Murderbot Meets a Beloved Bot
Rogue Protocol Martha Wells Tor.com August 7, 2018 Murderbot, whom I fell in love with both in All Systems Red and Artificial Condition, is back in Rogue Protocol, the third of four planned novellas in The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. The plot of Rogue Protocol is just as enjoyable as the first two, and the…