Network Effect

A Murderbot Novel , #5

eBook, 352 pages

English language

Published May 4, 2020 by Tor.com.

ISBN:
978-1-250-22984-7
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Goodreads:
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4 stars (3 reviews)

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.

3 editions

reviewed Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

An absolute blast!

5 stars

Such a fun read! Action-packed, almost breathlessly so, with much less of the exposition that I think slowed down the later novellas, still plenty of humour, but also deeper relationship-building. Murderbot (aka 'SecUnit', when it wants to be less, I don't know, murderey) remains easily the most relatable character in today's fiction.

Subjects

  • Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure