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System Collapse is the latest installment in Martha Wells's acclaimed Murderbot Diaries series, featuring an AI protagonist grappling with identity and ethics in corporate space conflicts. The story involves corporate exploitation and confrontation between SecUnits (armed robots) but avoids graphic violence; the emotional and psychological stakes are more prominent than physical danger. The book rewards empathy, ethical choices, and self-understanding, with a diverse cast and LGBTQ+ representation, making it well-suited for older middle-grade and teen readers who enjoy character-driven science fiction.
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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 there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leavin... 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 there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they'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 there's something wrong with Murderbot; it isn't running within normal operational parameters. ART's crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza's SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they're going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what's wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.
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ISBN 9781250339362 · Tor Books