I did an earlier Short Take on the first book in the series. This week in a marathon I read the last four books in the series. Only one was over 250 pages so you don’t have to be impressed.
I thought the last book, System Collapse, was intriguing. There was a crucial plot point that ‘Murderbot’ came up with that I wouldn’t expect from someone who doesn’t consider himself human.
I can see this series going on for a long time, and I am really interested to see how the Murderbot TV show coming out in mid-May on AppleTV gets interpreted. I was trying to catch up on the series before the TV debut and I met my goal a couple of weeks early.
First off, this really should be listed as Season Four as it’s not a reboot and it contains all of the key principal actors reprising their roles. Disney+ has certainly made peace with graphic violence in their adult fare as the show doesn’t have any real difference between Netflix and its current home.
I have one friend in particular who tells me about good SF, and I am always laughably behind in picking up new authors to read. The original short story “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” was published in 2012 and the three prior books in the series were published in 2018 and 2020. I read them all in 2024 and this fourth book I read within a month of its release! (I also have read a standalone book not in this series by the author.)