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Date read: May 7, 2026
The Murderbot Diaries
1. All Systems Red
2. Artificial Condition
2.5. Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy
3. Rogue Protocol
4. Exit Strategy
4.5. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
5. Network Effect
6. Fugitive Telemetry
7. System Collapse
8. Platform Decay - Hardcover | Kindle
Martha Wells
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Thoughts on Platform Decay: For a construct who doesn't really like spending time around people, Murderbot sure ends up spending a lot of time around people. Saving them, specifically. This time around, it's some of Mensah's extended family who've been caught up in the corporate politics stemming from when Murderbot and its people thwarted Barish-Estranza's almost-subjugation of an entire planet of people into indentured servitude. Yeah, Murderbot really messed up their plans and they are NOT happy about it.
After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for... eye contact!
(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)
(To be fair, ART and various others were also involved in stopping BE, but Mensah's family seemed like an easy target, I guess. Which is ridiculous when you consider they have a SecUnit willing to go to EXTREMES to keep Mensah and her family safe.)
Murderbot and Three have a plan in motion to rescue one of Mensah's marital partners, one of Mensah's offspring, and Nanna Naja (who might actually be related to one of Mensah's marital partners, but is (regardless) considered to be like a grandmother to the brood) from a nightmarishly large space station. Let's just say this is a high priority extraction with a lot of moving parts and leave it at that.
No, I can't leave it. Because when things go sideways, Murderbot has to make an agreement to help some others off the station. As the rescue group gets larger, things get exponentially more complicated. Murderbot has to come up with plans on the fly, deal with any potential fallout from making sure its people survive, and do whatever needs to be done to keep it and its charges safe.
GOOD TIMES. (As as aside, with so many SecUnits now able to code break their governor modules, what does that mean for the future? TIME WILL TELL, I GUESS!)






