Murderbot and its team descend to the planetary colony that seems to be at the center of the situation, and find that the colonists have been exposed to alien remnant contamination. Murderbot is enraged that ART would endanger the SecUnit's humans this way, and is further annoyed when ART insists that Murderbot and its human crew help find and recover the transport vessel's missing crew. As Murderbot guessed, after being invaded by the grey raiders, ART sent them after the SecUnit ostensibly for use as a weapon, but really because ART determined that Murderbot could overcome them. Arada and the others, who have followed the ship into the wormhole, are able to board as Murderbot finishes off the hostiles and manages to reload a deleted ART with a code phrase left for it. As the transport moves into a nearby wormhole, Murderbot hunts the grey-skinned humanoids in control of the ship, isolates Amena and the human captives Ras and Eletra in a safe zone, and begins to realize that the transport is the same one once controlled by its robot pilot friend ART. Their ship is set upon by a hostile transport vessel, which Murderbot and Amena are compelled to board as the others flee in an escape pod. Mensah on a research expedition that includes her daughter Amena, her brother-in-law Thiago, and Drs. It was winner of the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
It is the fifth in the Murderbot series and the first full-length book. Instead Murderbot is part of a formal investigation team from Station Security and is forced at times to work within the system and prove its trustworthiness to its disbelieving new coworkers.The Network Effect is a 2020 science fiction fantasy novel written by Martha Wells. The novella follows Murderbot as it investigates the murder of a stranger on Preservation Station but this time, it isn’t working alone, or even begrudgingly accepting the help of its human charges/companions. The events occur after the short story Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory. Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!įugitive Telemetry is a novella taking place between the end of Exit Strategy and the flashbacks in Network Effect, released on Apfrom Tor.com.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people―who knew?) If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
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