Martha Wells writes science fiction and fantasy about outsiders, constructed identities and characters who prefer competence to emotional display. The Murderbot Diaries begin with All Systems Red, narrated by a security android that has hacked its control module and would rather watch entertainment than deal with humans, yet repeatedly risks itself to protect them. Network Effect expands Murderbot’s world through artificial intelligence, corporate power and complicated friendships. Wells’s earlier fantasy includes the Books of the Raksura, beginning with The Cloud Roads, about a shapeshifting species and a protagonist searching for community. Her prose is fast, dryly funny and strongly voice-led. She suits readers of AI science fiction, space adventure, found family and inventive secondary-world fantasy. Read more Less
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