Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel - Martha Wells

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. ** Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.**You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.

Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.** —**

• I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.*

When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

Drastic action it is, then.