Platform Decay
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A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
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—)
The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
Platform Decay
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The lethal but good-hearted security robot that narrates Wells's Hugo and Nebula award–winning Murderbot Diaries series returns, alongside friends old and new, for its wildly entertaining eighth adventure (after System Collapse). On a high-stakes extraction mission, Murderbot guides fellow SecUnit, Three, to sneak onto a Corporation Rim station and trigger a distraction. Meanwhile, Murderbot, hidden inside a cargo module, slips through the station's heightened security. To Murderbot's dismay, successfully played for laughs, the station is built to look like an elaborate planetary landscape, with shops and offices built into man-made cliffs and caves. Despite this rocky terrain, Murderbot reaches the safe house holding Farai, one of Murderbot's dear friend Dr. Mensah's two marital partners; their daughter, Sofi; and Farai's mother, Naja. There, Murderbot encounters another unexpected obstacle: Supervisor Leonide, a higher-up in the Corporation Rim, who convinces the reluctant robot to help her family, sending it on a long and dangerous quest to rescue five more humans. This spectacular journey, punctuated with satisfying combat scenes, takes on an epic flavor grounded by Murderbot's sardonic voice and Well's exploration of mental health and physical well-being. Equal parts action packed, humorous, and heartfelt, this proves the series shows no signs of slowing down.
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New Murderbot Story Continues the Adventure
“Platform Decay” is the eighth installment in Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries series. Like many of the previous installments, this is a novella.
Our favorite SecUnit has been living with its humans from Preservation. Here, it is more than property. People keep acting as if it is an actual person, and this is beginning to be more and more the case. Interacting with people cause it all kinds of emotions. Emotions aren’t its strong suit, but it is learning to deal with them. What’s new is that it has installed a mental health module. This leads to all sorts of humorous self reflection and enhanced sarcastic internal monologue.
In this novel, Murderbot and the new rouge SecUnit, Three, are setting off to extract some humans from Preservation who are being held on a huge corporate station that actually forms a ring around a planet they are strip mining for resources. This station is a multi-corporate jurisdiction, and will be challenging to get into much less get out of with humans intact.
This novella was sort of a self contained adventure. It involves some of the cast of characters from the novel “Network Effect” which preceded it. As always, the story is another great installment in the Murderbot Diaries.
Redundant and reductive, somehow.
The author admits the pressure in the post script - they must crank out one of these one per year. The entire book here is a slog. The amount of action would be two chapters in an earlier work. No action. No new tech. Old characters used boringly. It’s a planes and trains chase that feels like a slow hike in the mud. The bloom is off the rose for this IP. Perhaps let someone start ghost-writing it going. forward? It’s such a wonderful character - it’s a shame to see it dying by boring the reader to death.
A good book but the weakest of the series
An interesting adventure for the series but I struggled with the very slow pacing. It kind of reminded me of the “this is the save the budget” episodes in a TV series. It’s just one location, very little action, limited cast, mostly talking. It doesn’t really move the overarching story. It’s just this random adventure.
I get the feeling the author is getting burnt out on the series, but has to fulfill a contract obligation.
Still worth the read if you’re a fan of the series. I just found it really slow with very little substance.