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By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
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A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily!

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.

After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.

Including human children. Ugh.

This may well call for … eye contact!

(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

“This spectacular journey, punctuated with satisfying combat scenes, takes on an epic flavor grounded by Murderbot’s sardonic voice and Wells' exploration of mental health and physical well-being. Equal parts action packed, humorous, and heartfelt, this proves the series shows no signs of slowing down.”—Publishers Weekly

©2026 Martha Wells (P)2026 Recorded Books Adventure Hard Science Fiction Humorous Science Fiction Witty Heartfelt
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Honestly, it’s hard to find anything to dislike about the Murderbot books, except maybe that they’re not long enough and there aren’t enough of them!

Kevin R. Free does such a great job of narrating them, dropping in the asides and editorials that our favourite snarky android is famous. I can’t imagine anyone else voicing its internal dialogue.

Another great Murderbot adventure!

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Amazing story. My favourite in the series so far and definitely the most edge-of-your-seat

My favourite instalment

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Murderbot continues to be the greatest sweetie pie in the universe. Proper laugh out loud moments with a good, tense, plot.

Pure love!

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Fantastic, heartwarming and too short. Next one please. A little less action compared to previous. I hope there will be more.

Fantastic

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It’s a good fun time with murderbot again. Murderbot’s having a terrible time actually but that’s ok, I had a lot of fun while it was being terrible.

Is it the best murderbot? No, the actual plot was not my fabourite. Is it worth a read? Heck yes. I think there’s a lot set up here to be explore in future stories; this feels a bit more like a filler novella than something that moves the wider story on. Just sit back, enjoy the gratuitous violence, and try not have too many emotion checks.

Another great murderbot day in the office

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