11th-Hour Ranger: Comes in at the end of Network Effect to help rescue the humans and then Murderbot. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. Default to Good: Shortly after being freed for the first time from its governor module and given free will to decide what it wants, Three decides that it wants to help people. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. 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 'Murderbot.' Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. With guns ablaze and circuits humming, It dispatches foes, without any numbing. But when danger strikes and lives are at stake, Murderbot springs to action, make no mistake. With books to read and shows to view, It finds solace in what it can pursue. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. No human friends to call its own, Murderbot prefers to be alone.

The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. Banks' Culture novels.Īll Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries.

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