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Martha Wells

    September 1, 1964

    Martha Wells crafts immersive science fiction and fantasy narratives that delve deeply into the complexities of her characters' inner lives and the richly imagined worlds they inhabit. Her stories often explore profound themes of identity, autonomy, and the search for meaning within often challenging or alien environments. Wells possesses a distinctive narrative voice, adept at seamlessly blending thrilling action with poignant introspection, creating stories that resonate long after the final page. Her skill in constructing original and compelling fictional universes solidifies her position as a significant voice in contemporary speculative fiction.

    Martha Wells
    The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2
    Exit Strategy
    The Siren Depths: Volume Three of the Books of the Raksura
    Network Effect
    The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1
    The Complete Murderbot Diaries
    • The Complete Murderbot Diaries

      All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy

      A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." 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. 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.

      The Complete Murderbot Diaries
      4.6
    • The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1

      All Systems Red, Artificial Condition

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The Murderbot Diaries vol 1 contains part 1-2 of The Murderbot Diaries; All Systems Red (1) and Artificial Condition (2).[Bokinfo].

      The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1
      4.9
    • Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century. — I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then.

      Network Effect
      4.5
    • The Third Novel in the Hugo Award-Nominated Books of the Raksura series, from New York Times Bestselling Author Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries). All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature — until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival court has laid claim to him, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance. The Fell, a vicious race of shape-shifting predators, menaces groundlings and Raksura alike. Determined to crossbreed with the Raksura for arcane purposes, they are driven by an ancient voice that cries out from . . . the siren depths.

      The Siren Depths: Volume Three of the Books of the Raksura
      4.4
    • Exit Strategy

      • 172 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red.

      Exit Strategy
      4.4
    • The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2

      Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The adventures of Murderbot continue in novellas three and four, collected in paperback for the first time! “Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?” Science fiction’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back in Rogue Protocol! The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. In Exit Strategy, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it’s caught?

      The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2
      4.4
    • The Harbors of the Sun

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series

      The Harbors of the Sun
      4.3
    • Fugitive Telemetry

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. 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?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award winning series!

      Fugitive Telemetry
      4.3
    • Artificial Condition

      • 158 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      A USA Today bestseller The "I love Murderbot!" —Ann Leckie Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks... The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse

      Artificial Condition
      4.3
    • System Collapse

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      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.

      System Collapse
      4.2