The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy

“We are all a little bit Murderbot.” – NPR on Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries… 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.

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.