Exit Strategy by Martha Wells is the 4th novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series of science fiction robot adventures, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Tor Books.
This is their featured free eBook of the Month Club offer for for a 24-hour period from April 23rd to 24th. It was nominated for both the British Science Fiction and Prometheus Awards, and is being offered alongside the its 3 other series companion novellas over the course of the week at 1 per day for 24 hours each, to help promote the upcoming 1st full-length novel, Network Effect, which will be published in May.
The series is set in a spacefaring future where planetary exploration missions must be accompanied by security androids supplied by the Company, and stars one beginning to develop its own self-awareness as it hacks the modules which control its behaviour, unknown to and scornful of the humans around it.
This story apparently concludes the mystery of what really happened in the industrial incident that gave the “Murderbot” its name as well as its journey of self-discovery, as the renegade security android risks recapture, returning in an attempt to aid some human scientists of its former mission team against the obligatory sinister corporation which owns them all.
Offered through for a 24-hour period from April 23rd to 24th until just before until just before 6 AM on Friday morning, Eastern Time, available DRM-free to Canada & the US only directly from the publisher.
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