All Systems Red
Written by Martha Wells
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
4.5/5
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Editor's Note
Award winning…
If you like “Westworld” and “Ex Machina,” check out this 2018 Hugo Award winner for Best Novella. A security robot (with a great sense of humor) hacks its own programming to become self-aware and just wants to be left alone. And then everything goes wrong.
Martha Wells
Martha Wells is the author of five previous novels: The Wizard Hunters, the first book of the Fall of Ile-Rien, The Element of Fire, City of Bones, Wheel of the Infinite, and The Death of the Necromancer, which was nominated for the Nebula Award. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband.
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Reviews for All Systems Red
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5unexpectedly good . I want to know more about murder pod .
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A fun little ride in the mind of an android during a very trying time
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved the unique POV and it had a GREAT NARRATOR!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story, and a great reading. Engaging and often funny reflection on what it might be like to be self aware but not considered fully human.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enjoyed this novel as a quick read. Would love to read a sequel.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great listen really really good g9dits good it is. Ok
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a wonderful read. Murderbot is a character, full of personality. A reread from me of the audiobook and book. Read the full review on my blog
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the experience of watching Murderbot becoming something new. The characters are complex and keep you guessing which way the story will be going.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing fun. The best sci fi series you will ever listen to.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buen libro, corto y entretenido. Buen personaje, si me quedaron ganas de escuchar los otros volúmenes
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a good fast paced mystery but fell off at the end
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent sci-fi novella! Why have I waited to read about Murderbot so long?! I loved its obsessive binge watching of serial adventure shows and its grudging, cautious affection for the humans it’s been hired to protect.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great writing and reader but the audio recording is too quiet.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I heard this series was fantastic and they were right. I love murderbot!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enjoyable short story about a sentient security bot who, instead of doing what it's told, just wants to be left alone to watch soap operas and other human media. The bot is sassy but lovable, shy and aloof, yet cares for "my humans." It also exhibits symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome (think Max from Parenthood. Cute kid, smart, but also has a 'tude). I highly recommend as a short read/listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story and a great choice of narrator. Looking forward to more books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Listened to this on a whim, and enjoyed it so much I immediately continued to the others. I don't normally like first person books but this works well, turns out it's more comfortable to see the story from inside a bot's mind than from inside a human's mind. I like the narrator's voice too, it suits the character.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’ve now read the first two books in the series and I really like it! I enjoy the main character’s viewpoint and journey. There are some laughs and some nice feels. I look forward to more Murderbot adventures!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book sucked me in immediately, and I read it completely through in one evening/night. Looking forward to the next MurderBot book in the series! Really fun read. <3
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fun and fast-paced, I loved it from start to finish
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is going on my top ten list for sure! A hilarious, tense, and well-plotted l space murder thriller with an exploration of robotic personhood that feels fresh and insightful. Kevin R. Free brings a wonderfully sardonic tone to the indifferent and lovable main character. This was everything I want in sci-fi: an original and thrilling plot, humor, gays in space, and robots having feelings. I am so glad this is a series, since I will absolutely be reading all of them!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's like what Droids should be.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The most fun and amazing book I've read in years. I love the character voice, the first person narrative works amazingly, and i think Martha Wells was born to write this series. It's so good that my liver almost doesn't hurt anymore with the fact that I bought it through audible and it costed me 1 credit per 4h novella, or in total 6 credits for what is actual 2 book listening time. It's so good I'm disappointed to death by the other stuff by the same author being bland, intensely average, and nothing like this.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'd heard so much about the Murderbot series that my expectations were very high, and they were not disappointed by this first novella. Excellent premise, fast pace, just a great read. I'll be binging the rest of the series!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Truly delightful, exactly what I was needing. Fast, fun and with a satisfying end. Recommend for sure.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not only is this an interesting novella, but the narration was excellent!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short walk turned into a 3 hour one... I couldn’t stop listening
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yeah, ok, this was very aesthetically pleasing to the imagination. I would certainly listen to more from this author. The narrator had a good range of voice and character. The story was paced well to match the novel's duration. Cool stuff.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting novel. I really like the robots character, it was new and fresh. But maybe I expected something...more. I don't know. Four stars it is.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a little hard to understand with the many difficult words but still a nice rather short story