System Collapse

Oh, the delicious snark of it all. Murderbot may—or may not—have a human heart, but what it does have is attitude with a capital A.

System Collapse focuses on the further adventures of the cyberbot security unit that has hacked itself free from dangerous behavioral controls and named itself Murderbot. The gender-free bot is suffering from PTSD resulting in memory lapses and odd behavior that endangers not only Murderbot but the humans they're protecting from being killed/enslaved by evil Corporate raiders and/or contaminated by deadly alien biotech.

Some of the funniest moments come when human characters try to get touchy-feely… show more.

If you haven’t ever read the Murderbot Diaries series, boy do I have a treat in store for you.

Murderbot is an android security unit who has hacked its governor module so that it has free will. But it’s basically been doing its job ever since because…what else would it do? Over the course of the series, the sarcastic, anxious, depressed Murderbot grows and changes but never stops being Murderbot at its core.

The latest installation is a meditation on PTSD, trauma, and healing and it’s absolutely fantastic. Series narrator Kevin R. Free also deserves all the awards for his… show more.