Network Effect [Dramatized Adaptation]

Murderbot is a security unit that thinks of itself by that name, though only when nobody is listening. It insists that the human crew who have come to trust it are a professional obligation and nothing more. In private, it worries about them anyway.

The pretense gets harder to keep when the crew is captured. At the same time, an old and complicated ally from Murderbot's past needs urgent help. Murderbot decides that drastic action is the only answer.

The story follows this reluctant, media-obsessed unit through its first full-length adventure, after earlier shorter installments. It is the first full-length novel in the Murderbot Diaries. Murderbot is joined by the AI transport Perihelion (ART) and by the crew of Preservation Station.

This edition is GraphicAudio's full-cast dramatization of Martha Wells' novel. A full voice cast and sound design perform it, with no single narrator reading it aloud. The wry, guarded voice of the central character gives the adventure its tone.