New readers, this is a great place to jump on, but be prepared to get so hooked you have to go back and read the other five immediately. It’s as great as every other installment in this series. What follows is a whole lot of dry sarcasm, unexpected betrayals, and Murderbot having to once again save a bunch of troublemaking humans from the consequences of choices made by bad actors. And because this is the first time Murderbot has ever had to really investigate something like this, it falls back onto detective shows from all the entertainment it streams to distract itself from the mundanity of humanity. It is not thrilled to have partners, especially human ones and even more especially when it is prohibited from accessing Preservation’s surveillance technology.
Murderbot, in need of an activity, is assigned to investigate the murder alongside the Preservation equivalent of a police force.
It (“it” is Murderbot’s chosen pronouns) hacked its governor module, went rogue, and royally pissed off Gra圜ris, its former “owner.” It now lives with Dr Mensah and her extensive family on Preservation Station where bots are free, and is anticipating a sneak attack by Gra圜ris in retaliation. If you are new to the series, here’s the really quick and dirty summation of what you need to know. A murdered corpse is discovered in a back corridor of Preservation Station, the unaffiliated space station that exists outside the purview of dictatorial corporate empires (like Gra圜ris, from which Murderbot just escaped). Martha Wells brings us back to our favorite snarky cybernetic killing machine with what is essentially a detective mystery on a space station.
Happily for new readers, you don’t have to have read any of the series to jump into this new standalone (although you’ll miss a whole lot of the background). Fugitive Telemetry is the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series, it takes place before the events of the fifth book, Network Effect.
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