Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid - a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot." Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company.
The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. Banks' Culture novels.Īll Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries.
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