Christina reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Review of 'All Systems Red' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A short sci-fi novel that kept me riveted is a five-star novel.
eBook, 156 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2017 by Tor.com.
4 stars
(36 reviews)
"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.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
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.
Anathema reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Love a grumpy MC
5 stars
Murderbot is the grumpy, reclusive, crunchy outer shell with a golden marshmallow heart MC I've always dreamed of.
Violence: yes Sexual Scenes: no
WelshPixie reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Yep!
No rating
Very cute and awww and generally great. I'll definitely be reading the rest of the series.
Violence: Yes Sexual scenes: No
Review of 'All Systems Red' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I LOVED All Systems Red. Murderbot might be my new favorite character in all of Sci-Fi. I had to read this for my first grad school class at Emerson, and it was an overall winner. Highly recommended if you like Sci-Fi, or if you like character-driven stories that are quick-paced, with decent action and good suspense. I will most definitely be adding the other Murderbot books to my TBR pile.
xiane reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Review of 'All Systems Red' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Honestly, what can I say that everyone else hasn't already said? Go read this. Then do what I did - because I am late to the party - and get the rest of the series.
There's a reason that everyone says "I love Murderbot!"
I do not remember how I feel about this
3 stars
I read this a couple weeks ago and could tell you approximately nothing about the plot! I remember having a nice time reading it? It's short, which is to its credit. There is some stuff about untrustworthy corporations, and the main character is a robot whose robot-ness seems to be a metaphor for neurodivergence of some kind? I don't know. It never really came together but also, hey, it was short.
PaperbackReader reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Review of 'All Systems Red' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This was a quick read, and I spent most of it struggling to decide how I felt about a narrator that sounds so HUMAN, yet seemed so disinterested in the notion of being owned -- that is, until I realized that hacking the governor and avoiding humans was very much an act of autonomy, and that much of the struggle for Murderbot isn't "Do I want to be free?", it's "What kind of 'free' could I attain, and which of my options is least repulsive?", at least at the end.
All in all, not bad, but I didn't really find myself caring about the characters or their fates, and that was a big detractor.
