All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

<p><b>Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella</b><br><b>Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella</b><br><b>Winner: 2018 Alex Award</b><br><b>Winner: 2018 Locus Award</b><br><b>One of the Verge's Best Books of 2017</b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller</b><br><b></b><br><b>A murderous android discovers itself in <i>All Systems Red</i>, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.</b></p><p><i>"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."</i></p><p>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.</p><p>But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn€t a primary concern.</p><p>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 €œMurderbot.€ Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.</p><p>But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.</p>