All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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All Systems Red
- Written By: Martha Wells
- Narrated By: Kevin R. Free
- Series: Murderbot Diaries
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Format: Unabridged Audiobook
- Release Date: 30-10-2017
- Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells’ series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie’s Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels.
All Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid – a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.”
Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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I really enjoyed this book. Only downside was that it ended too soon, I wish it was longer! I really hope there will be more of Murderbot’s adventures to come.
Tory Thai
So i usually hate buying stories this short because I somewhat feel cheated by discovering its just a fraction of a book broken up into pieces.
I absolutely did not feel that way with this book. This was a fully realized world and story with a very well built main character despite its length.
I highly recommend it. I love murderbot now and can’t wait to jump into the other books.
Its plot is interesting but It mainly focuses on the building and development of the main character murderbot. The plot does somewhat start to get interesting and ends fairly quickly once it gets started. This plot is meant to be short though and I can’t imagine what it’s be like if it was overly stretched out.
Overall, highly recommend it. Give a short novella a chance.