the murderbot diaries fugitive telemetry

This latest outing is a murder mystery in which a dead body is the catalyst for the story and not a result of it. Sounds like another day in the life of another nerd to me.īut Fugitive Telemetry is a sidestep for Murderbot, both for the character and for the series. Murderbot is anxious, irritated by other people, knows perfectly well how to do its job better than you do, and is quite opinionated when it comes to the media it consumes. Does it matter that it was made to be a heartless killing machine? Not really. But the worst part of the whole thing is not the unknown factors- it’s the fact that Murderbot actually has to work with humans.įor introverted science fiction nerd who have a hard time relating to people and would often rather watch their favorite shows than deal with other humans, Murderbot is an intensely relatable character. Mensah, Murderbot has a lot to deal with. With the entire station under lockdown, a precarious political situation unraveling around them, and the possibility of Gra圜ris assassins targeting Dr. Mensah is determined to show her fellow citizens that Murderbot is indeed a person, so she suggests (read: requires) Murderbot to work with the station’s security forces to find out who the dead body was, how they were killed, and why. But the planetary government is trying to determine what Murderbot’s status will be in the future: is it a person or an item? Dr. It has more sense than to leave a dead body where anyone could find it. When a dead body is discovered on the peaceful Preservation Station, security forces automatically assume that Murderbot is the culprit. With humor and a fair bit of action, this novella fills a gap in The Murderbot Diaries, demonstrating how SecUnit earned the trust of the space station’s crew.Fugitive Telemetry(The Murderbot Diaries #6) Meanwhile, SecUnit also has to deal with prejudices, job performance anxiety, and (ugh) talking to people. This may be SecUnit’s most harrowing mission yet (no, not really, but still). A plot is uncovered involving a locked spaceship mystery, generational indentured labor, and betrayal. The head of Security - who meets the a) and b) criteria and maybe c) - on the Preservation space station resents being told to work with SecUnit to find a killer.

The cyborg identifying as ‘SecUnit’ to the public, if they absolutely must have a name, has a hard time getting along with people who a) distrust anything from the Corporate Rim, where SecUnit was created and it’s legal for constructs like SecUnit to be slave labor, b) buy into the idea that SecUnits are too dangerous to be around humans, and/or c) don’t appreciate paranoid snarks with energy weapons in their arms.

Fugitive Telemetry, a novella by Martha Wells, is a sequel to Exit Strategy and a prequel to Network Effect, the previous entry in the Murderbot Diaries series.

The murderbot diaries fugitive telemetry