I have only recently discovered murder bot and have quickly read every book! They are so interesting, fast paced and I love how she is able to express her emotions and learning about dealing with her new situations

A fun locked door murder mystery. Very enjoyable.

This was a nice twist on murderbot having him working with others in a place he’s growing to like, and helping people he’s beginning to think of as friends. I’m sad to have the stories ending I hope there’s more

“Fugitive Telemetry” is the sixth major installment in Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries series. Like the first four installments, this is a novella. Our favorite SecUnit has been living with its humans on the world of Preservation. Here, it is more than property. People keep acting as if it is either a potentially dangerous construct, or an actual person (both of these are true). Interacting with people cause it all kinds of emotions. Emotions aren’t its strong suit, but it is learning to deal with them. What hasn’t changed is its dry sense of humor, and its sarcastic internal monologue. In this novel, Murderbot and some the humans on Preservation Station have to deal with an unexpected problem, the murder of a visiting human. This mystery only deepens as the initial facts are discovered, could it be a Corporate plot? Is there someone else at work for unknown purposes? Murderbot needs to find out in order to insure the safety of his friends. This novella was sort of a self contained murder mystery, and a return to the shorter Murderbot stories. It wasn’t entirely clear to me how it interfaces with the events at the end of the novel “Network Effect” which preceded it. Regardless, the story was another great installment in the Murderbot Diaries. My only complaint regarding this novella, is the pricing. Tor continues to release these novellas at a price point of a novel. Paying $12 for a e-novella does not seem appropriate to me. Granted, they sometimes offer them on specials later on, but this initial pricing just seems to make a lot of readers unhappy. I had to subtract a star from my rating due to this ongoing issue.

I get capitalism, but $12 for a novella is a bit extreme. Feels like a version of price gouging (“people are paying it so why not”). This is the first offering in the series that I won’t read… on principle.

I’ve really enjoyed the murderbot series and believe the author did a great job displaying the emotional aspects of being a humanized machine meant to kill. My biggest complaint is that I wish the books were longer, which is more a complement as I always dread the quickly approaching endings as I read the books in this series. Hopefully the next book in the series will be a full sized novel.

If 1/3 of us are willing to pay full price for novella length then they can charge that all the time. :( Love the books but don’t like the pricing.

If you like the Murderbot series you’ll enjoy it, but the publisher has apparently taken a lesson from the Corporate Rim and started charging novel-length prices for shorter works.

SecUnit is extremely relatable. That awkwardness he experiences on a moment to moment basis when he’s around humans is completely endearing. He’s a protagonist I can follow for many stories to come.

OK, overall this was the best scifi I’ve read in many, many years. Only real disappointment was that with the exception of the 5th book in the series, they were pretty short. Which, I guess, overall, is a complement. I wanted more. The last seemed rushed to tie it all up, but it was a very satisfying ending.