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Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.

Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know.

Including human children. Ugh.

This may well call for… eye contact!

(Emotion check: Oh, for f)

Author: Martha Wells
Series: The Murderbot Diaries Book 8
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 256pp
Size: 5 x 8 x 1
Notes: hardcover
Release Date:May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1250827005