Network Effect
A Murderbot Novel
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WINNER of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.
Named a Best of the Year by NPR | Book Riot | Polygon
“I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can’t recommend it enough.” —The New York Times
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.
Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.
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I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
Drastic action it is, then.
The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
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Hugo- and Nebula-winner Wells's excellent first full-length Murderbot Diaries novel (after the novella Exit Strategy) sees her hilariously humanlike Artificial Intelligence Security Unit recount a routine space mission gone horribly awry. SecUnit would rather be streaming its favorite shows than protecting the rather fragile human crew it works for, even if it has become somewhat partial to them. Unfortunately, being captured has become a matter of course for the crew's missions, and this time the kidnapping brings SecUnit face-to-face with its pseudo-creator, ART (Asshole Research Transport). Turns out that ART, another AI, needs SecUnit's help to rescue it from a hostile takeover by alien remnant technology. SecUnit's gloriously candid, frequently confused assessments of its crew and their predicaments allow for an amusingly childlike perspective on what it means to be human. Wells puts an astonishing amount of technical detail into SecUnit's narrative, which will please hard sci-fi readers without detracting from the engaging story line. Series fans and anyone who enjoys humor-infused space operas won't want to miss this.
Kundrecensioner
Great read, but not without flaws
The main premise of this book and the novellas before it is a rock solid, unique piece of storytelling, and it grabs the attention and keeps it there. A bot that has become not only self aware, but has it’s own agency, and feels anxiety and binge watches series in a way many can relate to, especially—dare I say it—post-COVID. As far as describing Murderbots internal thought processes, the story succeeds brilliantly, but what I feel let’s the books down, and therefore lowers my rating, is the fact that the description of surrounding environments and characters visual appearance, is superficial at best, and that there is a distinct directness—a lack of finesse to the storytelling. I’m addition, there are many lost opportunities for character development, such as further upgrades to Murderbot, exploring the evolution of bot striving after becoming human, and gaining more emotional intelligence as well as more human like appearance. Which when it comes down to it, is the already established premise of the character. I would have also liked to see software upgrades, such as complementing Murderbot with new learning modules to expand it’s capabilities. Are we still calling “it” “it” by the way? Is that the pronoun we’re still sticking with? Because it sort of feels like the intention was to give Murderbot humanity, and there is a distinct feeling of it being a she, throughout.
Despite these disappointments, the books are a great read, especially this one, which had more meat to it than the previous novellas. However, pricing digital novellas at 95 SEK is s steep price to pay, which is factored into my rating. This book in particular can justify that price tag, given a push, but not the novellas. With zero distribution and production costs, a purely digital book should by rule of thumb, be priced much lower than their paper based counterparts.