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Martha Wells' System Collapse wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as I expected. :/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/461757f2-100d-404b-b3d5-6d8548c03d81
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Martha Wells' System Collapse wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as I expected. :/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/461757f2-100d-404b-b3d5-6d8548c03d81
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Martha Wells' System Collapse wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as I expected. :/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/461757f2-100d-404b-b3d5-6d8548c03d81
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@rebekka_m
Did you see the short story with ART and it's crew from last summer?https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/
#murderbot #rebcommendations #MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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@rebekka_m
Did you see the short story with ART and it's crew from last summer?https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/
#murderbot #rebcommendations #MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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@rebekka_m
Did you see the short story with ART and it's crew from last summer?https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/
#murderbot #rebcommendations #MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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@rebekka_m
Did you see the short story with ART and it's crew from last summer?https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/
#murderbot #rebcommendations #MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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@rebekka_m
Did you see the short story with ART and it's crew from last summer?https://reactormag.com/rapport-martha-wells/
#murderbot #rebcommendations #MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Woohoooooo - a new #murderbot book by Martha Wells got released this year and I hadn't heard about it until now!!1
It's called Platform Decay and [without having read or listened to it] one of my warmest #rebcommendations, because MURDERBOT, AND Martha Wells, and OMG OMG etc.
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#MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Woohoooooo - a new #murderbot book by Martha Wells got released this year and I hadn't heard about it until now!!1
It's called Platform Decay and [without having read or listened to it] one of my warmest #rebcommendations, because MURDERBOT, AND Martha Wells, and OMG OMG etc.
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#MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Woohoooooo - a new #murderbot book by Martha Wells got released this year and I hadn't heard about it until now!!1
It's called Platform Decay and [without having read or listened to it] one of my warmest #rebcommendations, because MURDERBOT, AND Martha Wells, and OMG OMG etc.
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#MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Woohoooooo - a new #murderbot book by Martha Wells got released this year and I hadn't heard about it until now!!1
It's called Platform Decay and [without having read or listened to it] one of my warmest #rebcommendations, because MURDERBOT, AND Martha Wells, and OMG OMG etc.
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#MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Woohoooooo - a new #murderbot book by Martha Wells got released this year and I hadn't heard about it until now!!1
It's called Platform Decay and [without having read or listened to it] one of my warmest #rebcommendations, because MURDERBOT, AND Martha Wells, and OMG OMG etc.
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#MarthaWells #bookstodon #fiction #actuallyAutistic #actuallyADHD
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Network Effect by Martha Wells
it's been WAY too long since I last read some Murderbot. this was very much fun (murderbot: "no, it wasn't")
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fcc9fb43-f077-442d-b970-9e366f4628fe
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Network Effect by Martha Wells
it's been WAY too long since I last read some Murderbot. this was very much fun (murderbot: "no, it wasn't")
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fcc9fb43-f077-442d-b970-9e366f4628fe
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Ich bin auf die Phantastik-Autorin Martha Wells durch ihre Reihe "The Murderbot Diaries" aufmerksam geworden. Ich lese seit gestern ihren Einzelband "City of Bones". Der wurde ursprünglich 1995 veröffentlicht, und es gibt ihn seit 2022 in einer bearbeiteten Neuauflage.
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Ich bin auf die Phantastik-Autorin Martha Wells durch ihre Reihe "The Murderbot Diaries" aufmerksam geworden. Ich lese seit gestern ihren Einzelband "City of Bones". Der wurde ursprünglich 1995 veröffentlicht, und es gibt ihn seit 2022 in einer bearbeiteten Neuauflage.
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Season 1: #stephenking #beckychambers #tkingfisher #jamessacorey #sarahgailey #rickriordan #pdjeliclark #peterclines #melissacaruso #mattdinniman #kpopdemonhunters #brianlumley #jasperfforde #huntersthompson #kurtbusiek #marthawells #jeffvandemeer #jnchaney #caseyblair #annemcaffrey #saladinahmed https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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Season 1: #stephenking #beckychambers #tkingfisher #jamessacorey #sarahgailey #rickriordan #pdjeliclark #peterclines #melissacaruso #mattdinniman #kpopdemonhunters #brianlumley #jasperfforde #huntersthompson #kurtbusiek #marthawells #jeffvandemeer #jnchaney #caseyblair #annemcaffrey #saladinahmed https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries #8) by Martha Wells (audiobook)
One of the quirks of the XigXag audiobook platform is that once you’re on the £5.99 tier, it is often the cheapest place to buy a new book. The Murderbot series of novellas is always expensive. One does not begrudge the author her success, but charging £19 for a 256-page hardback (it’s not out in paperback yet) or £10 for the Kindle edition is the publisher taking the piss.
So: £5.99 is was, for the audiobook, narrated by Kevin R. Free, which sounds like a made up name. Do note that some of the Murderbot series is now available with a full-cast recording, but this early edition of the latest episode is not one of those.
I said latest episode there, and that’s how to think about Murderbot Diaries. I’ve said before that it’s like episodic TV, or a science fiction soap opera. Ironically, I had complaints about the TV series based on these books because the episodes were too short, often seeming to be arbitrarily chunked out rather than feeling distinct. In the case of the books, there has been a long old wait between outings. I reviewed System Collapse in January 2024 and it now appears to be June 2026.
Let’s not be one of those demanding whiny readers, like those who badger Mr Martin or Mr Lewisohn. Let us instead be grateful that there is more Murderbot.
This episode acknowledges the climactic events of System Collapse, but also stands alone as a straightforward adventure. Most of the human characters we’ve met before are offscreen, as it were, and though there is continuity there is a clear shape to this, and the ending doesn’t feel like a cliffhanger.
Murderbot is on a mission to extract some relatives of Dr Mensah from a giant ringworld-like torus that encircles a planet. There are many different zones/habitats in the Torus, and a variety of different corporate entities and polities, some of them hostile.
The novella begins as our narrator enters (with assistance from Three, the SecUnit he liberated in the previous book) and takes us step by step through the extraction and all the difficulties. It’s a computer game level, in effect. Get in, get these people, get out, while your corporate enemies try to stop you. There are of course complications and side quests, but that’s essentially it. And, like the other books, the whole thing is narrated with the mordant humour of someone who doesn’t want to meet new humans and certainly not children, yuk.
On one level this is very much the kind of contemporary science fiction that involves the main character / first person narrator interrogating every feeling, thought, and decision to the point of madness. It’s the kind of thing that has put me off reading contemporary science fiction, and why I threw down the last Becky Chambers novel I tried to read and never went back. This kind of thing has to be handled very, very well for it to work, and we wouldn’t be here (at #8 in the series) if it didn’t. In fact, one suspects a little playful pisstaking of the whole sub-genre, because Murderbot has a new module installed that allows him to check on the pesky emotions thrown up by his organic components.
Anyway, this was entertaining and amusing, as ever, and the audiobook narrator does a decent job. It comes in at 5 hours and 45 minutes, which is about half the length of a regular audiobook—but even XigXag’s full price of £7.99 is the cheapest way to get hold of it.
#bookReview #Books #MarthaWells #Murderbot #MurderbotDiaries #reviews #ScienceFiction #SF -
Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries #8) by Martha Wells (audiobook)
One of the quirks of the XigXag audiobook platform is that once you’re on the £5.99 tier, it is often the cheapest place to buy a new book. The Murderbot series of novellas is always expensive. One does not begrudge the author her success, but charging £19 for a 256-page hardback (it’s not out in paperback yet) or £10 for the Kindle edition is the publisher taking the piss.
So: £5.99 is was, for the audiobook, narrated by Kevin R. Free, which sounds like a made up name. Do note that some of the Murderbot series is now available with a full-cast recording, but this early edition of the latest episode is not one of those.
I said latest episode there, and that’s how to think about Murderbot Diaries. I’ve said before that it’s like episodic TV, or a science fiction soap opera. Ironically, I had complaints about the TV series based on these books because the episodes were too short, often seeming to be arbitrarily chunked out rather than working as episodes. In the case of the books, there has been a long old wait between episodes. I reviewed System Collapse in January 2024 and it now appears to be June 2026.
Let’s not be one of those demanding whiny readers, like those who badger Mr Martin or Mr Lewisohn. Let us instead be grateful that there is more Murderbot.
This episode acknowledges the climactic events of System Collapse, but also stands alone as a straightforward adventure. Most of the human characters we’ve met before are offscreen, as it were, and though there is continuity there is a clear shape to this, and the ending doesn’t feel like a cliffhanger.
Murderbot is on a mission to extract some relatives of Dr Mensah from a giant ringworld-like torus that encircles a planet. There are many different zones/habitats in the Torus, and a variety of different corporate entities and polities, some of them hostile.
The novella begins as our narrator enters (with assistance from Three, the SecUnit he liberated in the previous book) and takes us step by step through the extraction and all the difficulties. It’s a computer game level, in effect. Get in, get these people, get out, while your corporate enemies try to stop you. There are of course complications and side quests, but that’s essentially it. And, like the other books, the whole thing is narrated with the mordant humour of someone who doesn’t want to meet new humans and certainly not children, yuk.
On one level this is very much the kind of contemporary science fiction that involves the main character / first person narrator interrogating every feeling, thought, and decision to the point of madness. It’s the kind of thing that has put me off reading contemporary science fiction, and why I threw down the last Becky Chambers novel I tried to read and never went back. This kind of thing has to be handled very, very well for it to work, and we wouldn’t be here (at #8 in the series) if it didn’t. In fact, one suspects a little playful pisstaking of the whole sub-genre, because Murderbot has a new module installed that allows him to check on the pesky emotions thrown up by his organic components.
Anyway, this was entertaining and amusing, as ever, and the audiobook narrator does a decent job. It comes in at 5 hours and 45 minutes, which is about half the length of a regular audiobook—but even XigXag’s full price of £7.99 is the cheapest way to get hold of it.
#bookReview #Books #MarthaWells #Murderbot #MurderbotDiaries #reviews #ScienceFiction #SF -
Kai sitä tämmöisenä tekoälyn aikakautena pitää boteistakin lukea. Ei hassumpaa ollenkaan.
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Kai sitä tämmöisenä tekoälyn aikakautena pitää boteistakin lukea. Ei hassumpaa ollenkaan.
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I love this! #MarthaWells has pointed out that #MurderBot has been getting more healthy, mentally, and this article had such a cool quote from her:
"like at the beginning of Rogue Protocol [the third book in the Murderbot Diaries], when [Murderbot is] watching a show about humans exploring a spooky place and being attacked, and it thinks, ‘What this story really needs as a SecUnit.’ Part of that was Murderbot now seeing itself as enough of a person to want to start imagining itself in the shows."
https://www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-sanctuary-moon-martha-wells-show-within-a-show-swas -
I love this! #MarthaWells has pointed out that #MurderBot has been getting more healthy, mentally, and this article had such a cool quote from her:
"like at the beginning of Rogue Protocol [the third book in the Murderbot Diaries], when [Murderbot is] watching a show about humans exploring a spooky place and being attacked, and it thinks, ‘What this story really needs as a SecUnit.’ Part of that was Murderbot now seeing itself as enough of a person to want to start imagining itself in the shows."
https://www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-sanctuary-moon-martha-wells-show-within-a-show-swas -
I keep pausing not wanting the story to end. These books are too short & also the perfect length. It's just frustrating that they take years to come out. At least there's a Becky Chambers book releasing this year too. And if I want more speculative fiction that's right up my alley I could always, finally work on my own story series!
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I keep pausing not wanting the story to end. These books are too short & also the perfect length. It's just frustrating that they take years to come out. At least there's a Becky Chambers book releasing this year too. And if I want more speculative fiction that's right up my alley I could always, finally work on my own story series!
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I keep pausing not wanting the story to end. These books are too short & also the perfect length. It's just frustrating that they take years to come out. At least there's a Becky Chambers book releasing this year too. And if I want more speculative fiction that's right up my alley I could always, finally work on my own story series!
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I keep pausing not wanting the story to end. These books are too short & also the perfect length. It's just frustrating that they take years to come out. At least there's a Becky Chambers book releasing this year too. And if I want more speculative fiction that's right up my alley I could always, finally work on my own story series!
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Martha Wells: The Emilie Adventures
A fun, easy reading with a teenage protagonist who is allowed to be a CHILD.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a28f5c6e-2445-4c1b-a76a-5abc52b57b23
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Martha Wells: The Emilie Adventures
A fun, easy reading with a teenage protagonist who is allowed to be a CHILD.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a28f5c6e-2445-4c1b-a76a-5abc52b57b23
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Jänniä kertomuksia oli tarjolla tässä kirjassa. En ensin oikein osannut syventyä tarinaan mutta sitten se vei mukanaan. Jatko-osa on kirjastossa varauksessa.
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Jänniä kertomuksia oli tarjolla tässä kirjassa. En ensin oikein osannut syventyä tarinaan mutta sitten se vei mukanaan. Jatko-osa on kirjastossa varauksessa.
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I just finished "Platform Decay" from Martha Wells.
I wouldn't call it the best book of the series, but I really enjoyed reading it and it was nice to have #Murderbot back 🥰 -
I just finished "Platform Decay" from Martha Wells.
I wouldn't call it the best book of the series, but I really enjoyed reading it and it was nice to have #Murderbot back 🥰 -
I just finished "Platform Decay" from Martha Wells.
I wouldn't call it the best book of the series, but I really enjoyed reading it and it was nice to have #Murderbot back 🥰 -
I just finished "Platform Decay" from Martha Wells.
I wouldn't call it the best book of the series, but I really enjoyed reading it and it was nice to have #Murderbot back 🥰 -
I just finished "Platform Decay" from Martha Wells.
I wouldn't call it the best book of the series, but I really enjoyed reading it and it was nice to have #Murderbot back 🥰 -
Heute kurzer Mailaustausch mit einem Übersetzer, der mich anschrieb. Ich darf also aus meinem früheren Job vermelden: Murderbot auf Deutsch geht weiter!
Ach kieka, eine Seite dafür gibt's inzwischen auch:
https://www.penguin.de/buecher/martha-wells-plattformverfall/paperback/9783453324527
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Just finished listening to Martha Wells new Murderbot Diaries audiobook - Platform Decay.
No spoilers - it is excellent!
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#MarthaWells is back in town, in #Brookline tonight! Will be there. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sold-out-martha-wells-with-holly-black-platform-decay-tickets-1985394313838?aff=tootboston #BostonBooks #Boston #Murderbot
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#MarthaWells is back in town, in #Brookline tonight! Will be there. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sold-out-martha-wells-with-holly-black-platform-decay-tickets-1985394313838?aff=tootboston #BostonBooks #Boston #Murderbot
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Happy #2026 ! 🎆🥂#PublicDomainDay babe!
New blog post is up! I review 2 books that'll come out this year - #Murderbot Platform Decay by #MarthaWells and We Burned So Bright by #TJKlune, a couple of my fave authors
This made me realize I hadn't updated my reading stats in a year, so I did that this afternoon. Winnie the Pooh was a hilarious outlier. Pics attached - you can check it out in the lair section of my site too tho (a notion page) https://librarymonster.io/lair.html
🥂✨
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Happy #2026 ! 🎆🥂#PublicDomainDay babe!
New blog post is up! I review 2 books that'll come out this year - #Murderbot Platform Decay by #MarthaWells and We Burned So Bright by #TJKlune, a couple of my fave authors
This made me realize I hadn't updated my reading stats in a year, so I did that this afternoon. Winnie the Pooh was a hilarious outlier. Pics attached - you can check it out in the lair section of my site too tho (a notion page) https://librarymonster.io/lair.html
🥂✨
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#bookwyrm 30 Day Challenge - Day 3 - Color in Title - All Systems Red - Martha Wells #murderbot #murderbotdiaries #marthawells #sciencefiction #scifi #robots #dystopian #dystopianfuture #books #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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J'ai voulu participé à "1 autrice par jour pendant 20 jours", et là je me suis rendu compte que je n'avais pas lu 20 autrices 😭.
Honte sur moi !
• #CatherineDufour
• #UrsulaKLeGuin
• #LouiseSimonson
• #JillThompson
• #ElizabethVonarburg
• #ConnieWillis
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Yay, an ace/aro friend with really high standards regarding books and who usually doesn't like the first person POV at all, really liked the first two books of the series "The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells.
I gave them to her as a birthday gift.The books on the website of Martha Wells: https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
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Yay, an ace/aro friend with really high standards regarding books and who usually doesn't like the first person POV at all, really liked the first two books of the series "The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells.
I gave them to her as a birthday gift.The books on the website of Martha Wells: https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
