Just finished devouring Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells and I’m not okay 🚀🤖
If you haven’t met Murderbot yet, what are you even doing with your life? This snarky, anxious, media-bingeing, security-hacktivist SecUnit is back in the third installment of The Murderbot Diaries and it is everything.
In Rogue Protocol, our favorite construct who just wants to watch trashy soap operas and avoid human interaction gets pulled into another mission involving shady corporate secrets, deadly research facilities, and the kind of moral gray areas that make Murderbot’s threat-assessment algorithms go haywire. Cue the hacking, the reluctant heroics, the savage internal monologue, and the slow-burn found-family vibes that hit different every single time.
Martha Wells continues to deliver perfection: sharp wit, breakneck pacing, and that signature blend of hard sci-fi, corporate dystopia, and chaotic introvert representation we didn’t know we needed.
If you love:
AI protagonists with anxiety
Murderbot being done with everyone’s shit
Space stations, evil megacorps, and epic fight scenes
Novellas you can finish in one glorious sitting
→ Rogue Protocol is your next obsession.
ISBN: 9781250185433
Go read The Murderbot Diaries right now. You’ll thank me later (or send me increasingly unhinged messages about how much you love your angry robot son, same thing).
