Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”

It's not wrong... We're doing it, folks! The next series we're reading and discussing for the WSK Bookclub is The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. This is a very popular sci-fi series with a popular television adaptation on Apple TV, so heads up on placing inter-library loans early if you want to get them from the library. I also have some links under the cut to help you out with resourcing.

Now on to the main purpose of this post, a reading list and schedule! Per the last chat, we decided to cover the starting four novellas--this is one complete story arc--by reading two books over the course of two weeks and discussing both. (Don't panic, these are three to four hours long as audiobooks. You can finish them in less time than it takes to beat Portal.) After the first four novellas, we will revert to a normal one book per two weeks schedule as two out of the remaining three books are novel length. 

Reading order is a little tricky as Martha Wells is one of those authors who likes to publish out of chronological order. I decided to stick with publishing order for the novellas and novels as they are chronological with only one exception. However, I've slipped in the short stories where they fit best in the timeline. All chats will be on Sunday at 2pm CT in the Conspiracy Room.

Reminders will be posted periodically to help keep everyone on track. If this is your first time reading this series, you are in for a treat. (; Happy reading!

Hey guys, it's been a while. Would you like to have a New Year's chat in the Conspiracy Room to catch up? Say the 11th at 2pm CT? 

We could also talk about getting back on the While-She-Knits train. After watching the television adaptation of Martha Well's Murderbot last summer, I knew we needed to do a group reading of this series! 

I believe many of you have already read it, but if you've never heard of Murderbot before, imagine an anti-social, chaos gremlin soap opera fanatic, who happens to have guns for arms, reluctantly protect humans on classical sci-fi adventures. It's amazing. And also, mostly told in novella format, though a couple of the volumes are novel length, so reading the series won't be a huge time commitment. It even has an amazing audiobook.  

Let me know in the comments if you'd like to read and discuss this series. I figure if we start in February we can finish around the same time that the new book, Platform Decay, is set to come out and read that as well.   

Wish our favorite author a happy birthday, and congratulate her on nearly thirty years of thief-ing (not a word, but it should be!).