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May 2026 · The Murderbot Diaries Book 8 · Sold by Tor Books
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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
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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 ...
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227 reviews
Jacob Chokan
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May 25, 2026
Wells really phones this one in. The novella format only works when each entry nails it. Here we are paying for what should have been filler in a full length novel. All the interesting action happens somewhere else, to someone else. Character development is non existent for new central characters to existing characters families. I have been buying these day one since discovering All Systems Red and I think that ends now.
c k
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June 20, 2026
$13 for 140 pages is a rip-off. especially since this is just a derivative Mashup of the exact same jokes and scenarios in every other book in this overrated series.
Benjamin Craft-Rendon
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July 3, 2026
My initial impression is that I wish it had been longer, or that we'd had some extra time with the newly liberated SecUnits. I appreciated the riff on Niven's Ringworld and the time we got with workers off the job but under corporate dystopia
About the author
MARTHA WELLS has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, and was adapted into an Apple Original TV series. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.
MARTHA WELLS has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, and was adapted into an Apple Original TV series. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters,...
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