Murderbot - Apple TV+

Stembolt · 2025-04-09T15:59:05+00:00

May 16, 2025 Stars Alexander Skarsgård. Based on Martha Wells’ book series The Murderbot Diaries, an action-packed story about self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.

Somewhat-Reticent

antdude Read the books. Longer fun. 😉

ZZZZZZZ

urbanriot the length of it really does bother me and there are some annoying characters maybe that’s the way they wanted it though.

And there’s definitely something wrong with this new gal that just joined them. 🤓🫣

Stembolt

Renewed for season 2.

urbanriot

The end of season 1 wasn’t too bad… they wrapped everything up in a nice little bow and it could have been the end of the series entirely with the ending they gave it but I was honestly hoping for something a little different, something a little more epic.

Good series, fun to watch. Probably better to watch all in one sitting than waiting between the episodes since they’re too short.

Somewhat-Reticent

urbanriot I was honestly hoping for … something a little more epic.

Then enjoy the print version(s)!

urbanriot

Somewhat-Reticent Is there a compiled release of these books or do you have to buy the novellas individually? I only ask because I saw a review for them and it seems they’re short reads.

Somewhat-Reticent

urbanriot They’re fun fairly short reads, richer story than short vids.
I checked them out from local libraries years ago as they came out.
( Nowadays I may have to sign up for local checkout delivery & pickup. )
Or sign up with Tor books - lotsa great stuffs in print, audiobook or eBook.

urbanriot

Somewhat-Reticent library, thanks, i didn’t even think of that

Somewhat-Reticent

Glad to help.

urbanriot

Okay, did a little poking into things and based on what I found on Wikipedia, Amazon, and torpublishinggroup.com, there are a lot of options:

First off, here are all the books, most of which are novellas:

All Systems Red May 2, 2017
Artificial Condition May 8, 2018
Rogue Protocol August 7, 2018
Exit Strategy October 2, 2018
Network Effect May 2, 2020 (Full-length novel)
Fugitive Telemetry April 27, 2021
System Collapse November 14, 2023

Here’s how you can get them in collections:

a) The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy (Hardcover collection of the first four)
https://www.amazon.com/Murderbot-Diaries-Artificial-Condition-Protocol/dp/1250784271?sr=8-1

b) The Murderbot Diaries (Softcover collection of the first six)
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-murderbot-diaries-3

c) The Murderbot Diaries v1, v2, and v3 - first release (Softcover collection of two novellas at a time split into 3 different books)
https://torpublishinggroup.com/search/murderbot+diaries

d) The Murderbot Diaries v1, v2, and v3 - 2025 reissue (Softcover collection of two novellas at a time split into 3 different books)
https://www.amazon.ca/Murderbot-Diaries-Vol-Artificial-Condition/dp/1250389828

It seems based on reviews that the 2025 reissue is of poorer quality, flimsy binding with badly cropped pages and the three books aren’t the same height which annoyed one reviewer. Our local library has the books out probably because of all the people that watched it, I’ll probably grab the hardcover as $439.99 seems like a good deal.

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