Bright Futures SCI-FI BOOK CLUB: The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1 (All Systems Red)

Bright Futures: Return of the Sci Fi Book Club!

Please note this event will be in person at the shop.

Mara will be your host.

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Our July meeting of Bright Futures will be discussing All Systems Red by Martha Wells (from Vol 1 of the Murderbot Diaries).

The Book:

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.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is (and to watch its favorite show in its downtime.)

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth. And when Murderbot teams up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), they infiltrate the mining facility where Murderbot went rogue to try to understand its past. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…