Martha Wells is a New York Times best-selling author of 23 works of science fiction and fantasy. This story is a prequel to The Murderbot Diaries, her Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novella series.

A short story of Murderbot originating from a Wired magazine “Future of Work” anthology.

(https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)

В будущем, где доминируют корпорации и происходит исследование космоса, экспедиции на другие планеты должны получить разрешение и снаряжение от Компании. Исследовательские команды, для их же собственной безопасности, сопровождаются предоставленными Компанией охранными андроидами.

Однако в обществе, где контракта удостаивается предложивший наименьшую цену, безопасность не является первостепенной заботой.

На далёкой планете команда учёных проводит на её поверхности эксперименты под присмотром предоставленного Компанией робота ― обладающего самосознанием БезоБлока, который хакнул свой ограничительный модуль и мысленно обращается к себе, как к «КиллерБоту». Презрительно относясь к людям, всё, что он действительно хочет — это остаться одному на достаточно долгое время, чтобы решить, что же он такое на самом деле.

Но, когда работающая рядом экспедиция внезапно исчезает, докопаться до правды придётся учёным и их КиллерБоту.

Rogue Protocol is the third entry in Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries.

Starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?

Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is.

And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy.

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?

Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah―its former owner (protector? friend?)―submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.

But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?

And what will become of it when it’s caught?

A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!

A 2021 Nebula Award Finalist!

The first full-length novel in Martha Wells’ New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.

An Amazon’s Best of the Year So Far Pick

Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Book Riot | Polygon

The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!

Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.

When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people--who knew?)

Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!

Again!

A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award winning series!

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