There’s not a whole lot in the way of alien life-we just see humans, augmented humans (who have implants, usually to give them more powerful access to network feeds and controls), and bots (both simple and more intelligent). The books take place in a future world that includes interstellar travel through wormholes, and most of the plot is within the Corporation Rim, in which (as you may have guessed) corporations pretty serve as for-profit governments, and most rules and regulations are about protecting the bottom line.

So, here’s the order:Īnd now, the stories. (The first four have now been collected into one hardcover as well, though I picked them up as individual volumes at the bookstore because they didn’t have the collected edition.) I did find that the new hardcover editions of the novellas aren’t numbered, so it was a little confusing figuring out the order, particularly since the dust jacket flap for each of the first four included all three of the other books, no matter which one you looked at. I don’t want to summarize each book’s plot because that will naturally get into a lot of plot points from earlier books, so instead I’ll try to give more of a high-level description of the series and tell you what I like about it.įirst off: the series started off with four novellas, then a full-length novel, and then another novella. I gave a brief description last week of the first novella, All Systems Red. Last week I mentioned I would probably be writing up some “Art of” books soon, but that I’d also started on the second book in The Murderbot Diaries … well, turns out Murderbot won out.

Murderbot diaries order