All Systems Red

Name: All Systems Red
Author: Martha Wells
ISBN: 9781250784278

Martha Wells

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All Systems Red

Martha Wells

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#5403 of 8,085 books · #1132 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award (2018).

All Systems Red won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella and was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. 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. 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." 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.

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