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System Collapse
Science fiction
System Collapse
Book 7 of the The Murderbot Diaries series
After the alien-contamination crisis, Murderbot, ART's crew, and Preservation representatives remain on a colony threatened by the arriving Barish-Estranza corporation. Protecting the divided colonists requires persuasion and media strategy as much as combat, especially when the rival company brings its own SecUnits. Murderbot's performance is disrupted by trauma it keeps labeling as a redacted event rather than confronting directly. Action-driven but psychologically attentive, this sequel suits readers who enjoy corporate standoffs, sentient ships, improvised propaganda, and heroes discovering that surviving a crisis does not make its effects disappear.
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Combat violence and deaths; severe injury; alien contamination/body horror; psychological trauma; corporate exploitation; captivity/isolation; life-threatening peril; mild language.
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