All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells *****

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Murderbot is a Security Unit constructed from organic and inorganic parts with a governor to control the organic parts’ human tendencies. Murderbot hacked the governor. Now, he resembles a powerful augmented human. Not Asimov’s robot.

This book, first in the series, is Murderbot’s origin story. If the company discovered the hacked governor, Murderbot would be destroyed. Murderbot did his best to maintain the fiction that the governor was operating. However, he made exceptions to watch entertainment media. “It’s downloaded seven hundred hours of entertainment programming since we landed. Mostly serials. Mostly something called Sanctuary Moon.” It also made an exception to protect his clients. This is Science Fiction in the classic style: space travel, robots, technology.

His client is the PreservationAux Survey Team, headed by Dr. Mensah. This team of scientists is isolated on a planet with a damaged planetary survey package. The other survey team on the planet, DeltFall, has been murdered. PreservationAux is ill-prepared to defend themselves. The only hope is Murderbot and his hacked governor.

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