Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Alex Award
Winner: 2018 Locus Award
One of the Verge's Best Books of 2017
A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
**
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense
science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of
consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.**
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be
approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied
by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder,
safety isn't a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests,
shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that
has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never
out loud) as "Murderbot." Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to
be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and
their Murderbot to get to the truth.