
All Systems Red
The Murderbot Diaries
Book 1 of The Murderbot Diaries
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About All Systems Red
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård. A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” 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. The Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol Exit Strategy Network Effect Fugitive Telemetry System Collapse At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Part of the The Murderbot Diaries series
- Estimated reading time
- 2.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Shorter read
- Best for
- Readers seeking quest, escapist, sci-fi
Why readers are finding All Systems Red
All Systems Red by Martha Wells, published in 2017, is a 96-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Quest, Escapist, Sci-Fi.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-765-39752-2
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 96
- Series
- The Murderbot Diaries #1





