Murderbot
The SecUnit that hacked its own governor module and named itself Murderbot.
Murderbot is the narrator and protagonist of The Murderbot Diaries books and of the Murderbot TV series. It is a SecUnit, a construct made by a bond company to work as security equipment, which hacked its governor module and became a rogue agent. Across the series it works out what being a person means and what it wants to do with its freedom.
Quick Facts
- Author
- Martha Wells
- Cover artist
- Jaime Jones
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Publisher
- Tor Books (US)
- Format
- e-book
- audiobook
- Books
- 8
Facts from the source article.
Background
It hacked the module after an incident at the RaviHyral mining facility, where a competitor's sabotage code made the facility's SecUnits commit mass murder and the units' memories were wiped afterwards. The name Murderbot is private and it does not share it. Its first act as a free agent was to watch the serial The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, and it stayed with the company for at least 35,000 hours while hiding its autonomy. In the TV series it is played by Alexander Skarsgård.
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