
Network Effect
Network Effect is the first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, and it won the 2021 Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. I'm usually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then.
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781250229847
- Topics
- Artificial intelligence and identityFound familyAutonomy and free willSpace adventureLoyalty and trust
Awards
- Hugo Award for Best NovelWon(2021)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelWon(2021)
- Nebula Award for Best NovelWon(2020)
- Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2020)
Other awarded books from Martha Wells
- Witch King (2023)1 win · 14 score
- System Collapse (2023)1 win · 7 score
- The Witch King (2024)1 win · 5 score
- Queen Demon (2025)0 wins · 4 score
- The Death of the Necromancer (1998)0 wins · 3 score
- All Systems Red (2020)0 wins · 2 score
- City of Bones (1995)0 wins · 2 score
- The Murderbot Diaries (2020)0 wins · 2 score
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