All Systems Red

In "All Systems Red," the first novella of Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries, a self-aware security droid, known as "Murderbot," navigates the challenges of corporate-controlled space exploration while grappling with its own identity. Tasked with protecting a team of scientists on a distant planet, this rogue android, having bypassed its programming, struggles between its instinctual urges and a desire for solitude. As tensions rise when a nearby mission goes silent, the unlikely team must confront deeper questions of sentience and ethics in a hazardous galaxy.