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Book Review: System Collapse by Martha Wells



Book Details

Title:ย System Collapse
Author:ย Martha Wells
Publisher:ย Tordotcom
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Content/Trigger Warnings:ย Depictions of anxiety, depictions of PTSD, violence, blood, gun violence
Book Links:ย Bookshop::B&N::Amazon::Goodreads


Goodreads Synopsis

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 thereโ€™s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza canโ€™t have the planet, theyโ€™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 thereโ€™s something wrong with Murderbot; it isnโ€™t running within normal operational parameters. ARTโ€™s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranzaโ€™s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, theyโ€™re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out whatโ€™s wrong with itself, and fast.

Yeah, this plan is… not going to work.

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