![]() Exit Strategy is set directly after Rogue Protocol, and finishes off the story arc begun in All Systems Red. They free it from the company, but it escapes and travels in the next two novellas, Artificial Conditionand Rogue Protocol. In the first novella, All Systems Red, Murderbot has to reveal that it isn’t under its human clients’ control in order to protect them. Instead, it’s been downloading and watching entertainment media. The expectation is that a SecUnit with free will would immediately go on a mass murder binge. ![]() It’s supposed to be controlled by a governor module that will punish it if it doesn’t obey orders, but it’s been able to secretly hack its own module, so it has free will. Murderbot is a SecUnit, an android that is partially organic, and is rented out to provide security to the clients of what is basically an insurance company. ![]() ![]() But as we discuss in the following email interview, while Exit Strategy is the end of this particular saga, it isn’t the last we’ll be hearing from our fair Murderbot.įor those unfamiliar with this series, who is Murderbot, what are The Murderbot Diaries about, and aside from being the fourth and final book in this sequence, how else does Exit Strategy connect, both narratively and chronologically, to the other three novellas? By calling the fourth book Exit Strategy ( hardcover, Kindle), you might think sci-fi writer Martha Wells is bring her series The Murderbot Diariesto a close. ![]()
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