System Collapse by Martha Wells
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System Collapse
- The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7
- Written By: Martha Wells
- Narrated By: Kevin R. Free
- Series: Murderbot Diaries
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Format: Unabridged Audiobook
- Release Date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure!
Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse.
Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.
But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!
Yeah, this plan is… not going to work.
Amazon Customer
If you’ve been on the journey so far, you will likely enjoy this new installment, in which our favorite SecUnit teams up with select members of the PresAux and Perihelion crews to clean up the mess that they (and Barish-Estranza) made in NETWORK EFFECT.
The main story is a more internal one — MB is facing some of the aftereffects of its long history of trauma — but there’s still plenty of action, spaceships, corporate scheming, sarcastic banter, and found-family feelings.
Kevin R. Free’s narration may have been affected by the SAG-AFTRA strike – he’s still excellent, but there were a few points where his internal voice for MB was in a slightly lower/warmer register, and it was … odd. And one of the main characters’ names is pronounced differently in a couple of chapters. It felt like production may have been rushed? I don’t actually know the backstory there, but it was less fantastic than it usually is. (I still gave him five stars, but it’s more like a A- instead of an A+.)
Off to listen again!
E. Brady
Too short. Please make the stories longer. More description and action. Why is there a 15 word minimum?