Although Martha Wells hinted that Platform Decay was coming—it’s talked about in a June New Yorker profile of the best-selling creator that ran alongside Murderbot‘s first season on Apple TV—we now know when the eighth Murderbot Diaries guide will arrive. Get able to learn extra disgruntled AI adventures beginning Might 5, 2026.
The Murderbot Diaries kicked off with the novella All Techniques Pink again in 2017; Apple TV’s adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgård because the awkward but lethal safety unit that decides defending people isn’t totally terrible—so long as it will probably sustain with its favorite trashy TV shows—hewed intently to the occasions of that story throughout season one.
Platform Decay is the eighth entry within the sequence, which is usually novellas but additionally features a full-length novel, Community Impact.
Platform Decay is 256 pages, so it’s kind of halfway between novella and novel. Right here’s the official description:
“Having another person assist your unhealthy determination feels sort of good.
Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it must spend important time with a bunch of people it doesn’t know.
Together with human kids. Ugh.
This may increasingly nicely name for… eye contact!
(Emotion examine: Oh, for f—)“
A press launch from Tor Books offers us a bit extra element, plus one other emotion examine:
“Murderbot is on a mission to rescue Mensah’s household in company territory. However when it runs into an previous enemy, the mission will get rather more difficult. With hostiles on their path and traumatized juvenile people to take care of, Murderbot has its hand full – and that’s earlier than they run into pirate raiders, an revolt, and (extra) rogue SecUnits.
(Emotion examine: Not calm.)“
Followers of the TV present will acknowledge Mensah (the mission chief performed by Noma Dumezweni, also called Murderbot’s favourite human) and the concept of “rogue SecUnits,” since Murderbot itself has disabled the module that’s purported to make it obey all instructions. Simply don’t give any of them nicknames (like, say, “Seccy”) or power them to make eye contact. They actually don’t like that!
You possibly can preorder Platform Decay now forward of its launch subsequent spring; Murderbot season two is coming however doesn’t but have a launch date.
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