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The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red / Artifical Conditions / Rogue Protocol / Exit Strategy
The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red / Artifical Conditions / Rogue Protocol / Exit Strategy
Author: Martha Wells
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.  But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern.  — ...  more »: On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied bot, 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.

Artifical Conditions (Murderbot Diaries, Bk 2): "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure".  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.

Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries, Bk 3): Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?  Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission.  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.

Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries, Bk 4): Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care.  So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?  Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, 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?
ISBN-13: 9781250784278
ISBN-10: 1250784271
Publication Date: 9/22/2020
Pages: 659
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Publisher: Tordotcom
Book Type: Hardcover
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