Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel, Paperback/Martha Wells

A 2021 Nebula Award Finalist The first full-length novel in Martha Wells ' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. An Amazon's Best of the Year So Far Pick Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR Book Riot Polygon I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can't recommend it enough. -- New York Times 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. About author(s): MARTHA WELLS has written many fantasy novels, including 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. Her New York Times and USA Today- bestselling Murderbot Diaries series has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards