Then Tor offered the first four novellas for free, and readers I trusted were so enthusiastic that I took Tor up on its offer (hey, FREE) and met Murderbot and loved it from the first line: So when I kept hearing about Murderbot, I thought, Robots that kill, uh, no, and moved on. But then I moved on to mystery and did my first master’s thesis on that (it was terrible) and then working on my PhD I finally took a good look at romance and settled in for the long haul. Our Laura Resnick is Mike Resnick’s daughter.
(I almost drove off the road one afternoon when my pal Alisa Kwitney told me her dad was Robert Sheckley I loved Robert Sheckley’s work. I devoured science fiction in junior high and high school, so my background in the genre is Asimov, Norton, and Sheckley. Wells is a terrific writer so I’m sure all of her books are terrific, but I am a Murderbot fan (to put it mildly) so this is a Murderbot post.
Two, I have read all of the Murderbot novels plus the last novel well over twelve times (I stopped counting then) and I’ll re-read them another twelve times at least. First, two confessions: One, I’ve only read one Martha Wells’ novel that wasn’t a Murderbot.
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