System Collapse

by Martha Wells

Audiobook

Published by Recorded Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-7050-4102-4
ASIN:: 1705041027

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.

Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, …

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.

Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

4 editions

No Never reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Great followup to Network Effect

4 stars

Took me a second to get back into murderbot after a short break in those stories and because this one picks up where Network Effect left off, not Fugitive Telemetry. It was absolutely worth the little confusion though, because I really enjoyed this one once more, seeing beloved SecUnit deal with emotions and [redacted] in that weird neurotissue thing was a nice little change of pace to the earlier, very confident stories. Highly recommend this one to everyone who got this deep into the Murderbot Diaries in the first place!

Stephen reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Great

5 stars

As good as the rest of the series.

KevSaund reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

I too enjoy consuming media

No rating

I listened to the audio book while playing powerwash simulator. Not a bad listen.

David Bremner reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Another Murderbot adventure

4 stars

For the first half of the book I was a bit confused, perhaps because it is really a sequel/continuation of Network Effect (and it's been a while since I read that). In the end I did enjoy it, particularly the middle part, where Murderbot does something completely unmurdery to save the day.

Niko reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

None

4 stars

Murderbot's BACK baybee

Milla H reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Murhabotti alisuorittaa

3 stars

Suoraa jatkoa Network Effectille, jossa Murhabotti ihmisineen selvitteli siirtokunnan asioita planeetan pinnalla.

Toinen yhtiö ei vaan luovuta vaan haluaa kaikki asukkaat orjatyöläisiksi, mitä Murhabotin ihmiset haluavat estää. Siirtokunnan historiasta selviää uusia asioita ja täytyy lähteä tuntematonta kohti. Murhabotti itse ei ole oikein kunnossa.

Kirja lähti liikkeelle melko täysillä ja selittelemättä. Oli niin paljon erilaisia tunneleita ja hangaareja että vähän jo eksyin niihin. Ehkä ei ihan paras sarjassa.

tivasyk reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

starts slow, then picks up speed

3 stars

this one is my least favourite of the series, probably because of how slow and almost boring it's at the start, but somehow the second half is actually quite good.

Taylor Drew reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

My organic parts feel things

5 stars

It's hard to believe that this is already the seventh book we've had to spend the time together with Murderbot. As a direct follow-up to Network Effect, System Collapse has a lot of the personal development and processing that we saw in that book, which I really appreciated.

I just love the added layer of complexity that Murderbot as a less reliable narrator provides. And who could say no to more Murderbot fighting with ART?

73pctGeek reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Oh, Murderbot

4 stars

The direct sequel to Network Effect brings Murderbot and ART back together again to tackle alien artefacts, Barish-Estranza baddies with non-rogue SecUnits, colonists with trust issues, < redacted >, and rights conflicts.

I hope this isn’t the last of the Murderbot diaries, and I can’t wait for the TV series (please be good), as I am now bereft of new content about the most lovable SecUnit in existence.

‘What came out was, “Something in me broke.”’ You know what broke, Murderbot? My heart.

BoMay reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Murderbot Dreams

3 stars

A little slower to get going than some of the other episodes but still left me hoping Wells isn’t done with Murderbot.

eve massacre reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

None

4 stars

Okay, I will miss you, Murderbot. Guess now I am ready for your TV show.

gregorgross reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Now I'm done reading all books there are in this series...

4 stars

... and I'm not satisfied and now keep waiting for a new book in this series. What is so fun is the always hard strategical thinking Murderbot and ART and their humans have to do, which always happens because they are always in dire straits because of buccaneering megalarge companies doing their power grabs over humans, other companies, even planets.

Also, because it's fun because Murderbot got rid of its governor module, so it can be free. But the governor module also manages anger, and since it's down, the anger is always up. Beware of ART, who is much bigger than Murderbot, and so he's got much bigger amounts of anger, you know.

And also because it feels like Murderbot is freeing lots of other SecBots everywhere and this might lead to a full stop revolution of SecBots and larger bots as well.

Michael Shotter reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

None

4 stars

I enjoyed this Murderbot outing, which is a direct follow-up to the events of "Network Effect" and could almost be seen as a "part two" of that book in the same way "Exit Strategy" could be seen as an extension of "Rogue Protocol." There's a lot to like here for fans of the saga and I had fun with it but for me, the story never really got going or had much punch to it. I think a big part of that is because the stakes and threats this time around sort of pale by comparison to the full-tilt madness that was basically front and center throughout the duration of "Network Effect." That's not really a problem as it makes for a more intimate, introspective, and "personal" story for Murderbot and the reader to experience together but I find myself at a point where some of the tropes of the series have started to wear a bit thin and lose their luster in a way that leaves me hoping it'll nicely wrap up and Murderbot will get to gracefully fade off into the sunset in another book or two. Bottom line: Still having a good time. Still here for whatever comes next. Just not as enthralled as I was by some of the other entries, which is absolutely fine, and admittedly a great place to be as a reader after seven books.

derekvan reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

I liked alienated Murderbot better

4 stars

This was largely enjoyable, although the turn from Murderbot feeling alienated from everyone to Murderbot feeling cringey about how much its humans care for it is a little less engaging. This story largely focused on Murderbot's trauma response to Network Effect - Martha Wells and its relationship with ART and the humans. Didn't really play out any of the threads about alien contamination from Network Effect, which is feeling like kind of a big tease at this point.

pdotb@wyrms.de reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Slight degradation

4 stars

Not quite as good as Network Effect, perhaps because ART is less involved this time. The first couple of chapters also confused me a bit -- I felt like I'd been dropped into the middle of a book and had missed the build-up -- but once I got past that it was a ton of fun.