Network Effect
{4.5/5} “If you put everything that had happened to me on a scale of awfulness and assigned exact values to each incident (which I had done once, it’s in my archive somewhere) dealing with corporates who exploited failed colonies, and probably went through SecUnits as fast a Amena did fried vegetable crunchy things, was in the lower third of the chart.”
Network Effect by Martha Wells, published in 2020
Murderbot has decided to stay with Dr. Mensah on Preservation Station for now, and it will go along on excursions when someone needs security. Particularly when Dr. Mensah or her daughter Amena are on the excursion. Mensah agrees that she should seek treatment for the stress caused by her kidnapping, but she hasn’t done it yet. Amena, a volatile teenager, is annoyed that Murderbot rescued her from someone it calls, in its head, Potential Target.
This is the 5th Murderbot story, following Exit Strategy, and the 1st full-length novel.
It’s about what happens when you unexpectedly run into an old friend — who then endangers your crew because it wants you to help them.
It’s about rescuing beings who need rescuing, whether they are humans or cyborgs.
This is the 5th book I’ve read by Wells.