A really good series of sci-fi novels. All good stand alone books and parts of a well constructed series.

Thinking about this series makes me have emotions. And I hate that.

Murderbot is the opposite of an unreliable narrator - it’s a scrambled mess of a narrator and an equally scrambled mess of a hero. And that’s why it’s so delightful. Another wonderful installment.

What a complete and utter disappointment

The book and frankly much of the series is quite repetitive. 1/3 what happened in the previous books 1/3 technical gibberish that doesn’t push the story forward and 1/3 action.

Another step in Murderbot’s personal evolution, and each installment just makes me happy. Tied for second favorite sci-fi series/universes of all time for me (with Cherryh’s Foreigner and just behind Banks’s Culture).

Great next entry in series

Never expected MB to save the day as a movie producer!

What’s up with the punctuation problems? Hundreds, if not thousands, of comma splices / run-on sentences. Love the Murderbot series, but this was distracting. Previous books did not have this problem. Did someone forget to turn on Grammar Checker in Microsoft Word?

“System Collapse” is the second full novel and the seventh work in Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries Series. Most of the previous installments have been novellas. This second longer work has allowed Ms. Wells to tell a more complex story with a larger setting. I personally liked the greater scope of these novels. Our favorite SecUnit has been living with its humans on the world of Preservation. Here, it is more than property. People keep acting as if it is an actual person, which causes it all kinds of emotions. Emotions aren’t its strong suit, but it is learning to deal with them. What hasn’t changed is its dry sense of humor, and its sarcastic internal monologue. In this novel, Murderbot and some of his humans are on a colony world that’s having an unsustainable problem with alien contamination. They are in the process of trying to get the colonists to evacuate, when some corporate representatives show up. Then they learn about a second colony site that needs to evacuated as well. Of course things go spectacularly wrong, and Murderbot has to find some way to keep his people safe. This full novel was just as absorbing and exciting as the previous works. The larger setting was interesting, because the reader was able to see many facets of the mystery that the second colony site posed. Another great installment in the Murderbot Diaries, which left me wanting more. Hopefully, we will see more Murderbot in the near future.