'All Systems Red, The Murderbot Diaries' by Martha Wells

All Systems Red, The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells (4.0)

The new streaming series follows the first Murderbot book rather closely, though as a YA novel, it is short and a bit simpler. If you like the series, you will smile at the narrator’s inner monologue throughout the book. That narrator is the security robot (aka Sec-unit) self-named, ‘Murderbot’. He has been assigned to a hippy-like group of scientists who are on a research mission to a new planet. When several inconsistencies and accidents happen, their leader and Murderbot start wondering if they are in trouble. The author has done a nice job of introducing new technology and mixing it with corporate overtones and complications.