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The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1

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The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time! "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." First, read the story that started the Murderbot phenomenon in All Systems Red! On a distant planet,... Read More
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The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1

The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time!

The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time!

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The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time!

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

First, read the story that started the Murderbot phenomenon in All Systems Red!

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 (and to watch its favourite show in its downtime.)

But when a neighbouring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Then, in Artificial Condition Murderbot teams up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), and together, they infiltrate the mining facility where Murderbot went rogue to try to understand its past.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250389824

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 February 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Tor Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

MARTHA WELLS (she/her) 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. 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.

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