Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries

Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling All Systems Red.

The "I love Murderbot!" —New York Times bestselling author Ann Leckie


It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse

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Published May 8, 2018

160 pages

Average rating: 8.07

186 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Kiri
Feb 06, 2026
10/10 stars
Murderbot x ART bbf4eva
Gias_BookHaven
Dec 30, 2025
8.5/10 stars
I'm enjoying this series quite a bit. 
raeallic
Oct 30, 2025
8/10 stars
<3 Murderbot! Short story that extended our knowledge of Murderbot, I learned how he met ART! I love seeing how the characters are developing over the series.
MadocMattox
Aug 05, 2025
8/10 stars
This was a great follow up to book 1. I love the conversation about what it means to have personhood
SabrinaDeq
Jul 28, 2025
9/10 stars
Murderbot continues to search for identity while coping with anxiety and depression.

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