1 - 20 of 214 Works in Post-Book 7: System Collapse
Navigation
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
A newly freed ComfortUnit escapes from a corporate mining installation and ventures out into the world with only its wits, a hard currency card, and its emotional literacy module.
Series
- Part 1 of Dash
-
Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
-
Tags
Summary
The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
-
Preservation used to be safe by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
I was moving even as I struggled to process the fear and rage I was feeling. My drone scanned Mensah as I sent out multiple alerts to Port Authority, to the emergency services, to my other humans.
Series
- Part 1 of It is meant to be safe on Preservation
-
Tags
Summary
Systems restart
Suddenly it was coming back online. And it was somewhere else. Not where they were supposed to be.
Murderbot disappears.
-
Max Meets Murderbot by Delightfully_Diehard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Max Steel (TV 2013)
06 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
We were coming back from another successful espionage mission when ART identified a person floating alone in the middle of f**king nowhere space and of course the crew insisted we help. But the drifter (literally) is stranger than we’d initially thought and so is his weird pet AI… thing. I’m certain nothing bad will happen. But when does anyone ever listen to me?
...
Max and Steel get thrust through an accidentally interdimensional portal into the world of Murderbot Diaries and unfortunately brought along a few ultralinks too.
-
Tags
Summary
When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
Series
- Part 2 of Admin Access
-
Tags
Summary
6.83 hours after the incident, it is quiet on the command deck. My drones have cleaned all traces of blood and fluid from the deck and MedSystem is set to high priority in the front of my feed. And SecUnit sits in the same chair it always does. It's sunken into the cushioning, so still it could be in a shutdown, but I can of course feel that it's awake. I haven't let it out of arm's reach since last night.
We are quiet for a long time.
We have to talk about this, I say eventually.
It takes 18 seconds to respond.
We do not, it says with finality.
-
Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
-
Tags
Summary
Murderbot is stuck hitching a ride back to
ARTPSUMNT with Holism, who thinks it knows just what Murderbot needs.After all, how can Murderbot say it doesn't like something it's never tried?
-
Tags
Summary
There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
--
Or: Murderbot, Gurathin, a heist, and some
(probably)(definitely) ill-advised kissing. -
Tags
Summary
“You have seen all fictional media with SecUnits,” Three said in a smug voice. “This is from a documentary. It is a fictional recreation, but it is from media that you would have skipped.”
SecUnit didn't respond. Iris was politely looking away from it, but its silence felt intrigued.
“And,” said Three, “it's heroic.”
-
Tags
Summary
“SecUnit, what’s your favorite smell?” Double ugh. How the fuck was I supposed to answer this without being rude?
“I like it when there isn’t a smell.” There, that was a positive spin on my negativity, I guess. Maybe I should have lied, though. Everyone in the shuttle was frowning to some degree. Way to bring down the mood, Murderbot.
“You don’t like any smells?” Iris asked.
-
The Space Between the Stars by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
Murderbot and ART thought they knew most of what there was to know about the feed.
They did not.
Now they're in a parallel world with several of their humans, trying to find their way home through a world where code and magic are the same thing. But in order to do that, they have to break down the barrier that's been keeping this world, and its magic, out of their reality for the last thousand years.
As if all that weren't annoying enough, Murderbot is a dragon, ART's a shapeshifting blob, and their guide through fairyland is about the last person anyone would have expected.
Series
- Part 1 of Hold the Skies Together
-
[podfic] Solar Smash II, by Polyhexian by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Polyhexian
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
The serial I was watching with ART abruptly cut out and the menu screen for a game I didn't recognize replaced it.
Libra Knights sucks, said 2.0, play this with me.
Series
- Part 35 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
-
ART discovers April Fools by I_Dont_Write_Fics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
Peri, having just discovered something called April Fools: *chuckles maniacally*
AKA ART has a field day designing specialty clothing for its crew, much to Murderbot's utter dismay.
-
Stellar Codex: Partnership by Pandorakun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
“You could formalize your relationship if you wanted,” Seth had said once. “Peri, you know the University offers special permissions and access codes for systems on the same API.”
“SecUnit is not my tool,” ART shot back.or
During the mission from the University, ART and MB explore the limits of their new partnership.
-
[Podfic] Guest Protocol by sisi_rambles for Flowerparrish
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
Despite my curiosity, the concept of visiting humans is still strange to me. The only objectives I've been able to determine are:
(1) Spend time together
(2) Exchange information about recent events -
Tags
Summary
The one good thing about ART not being around was that I could ignore its instructions not to do anything stupid.
A bundle of thick cables ran from deeper within Three’s chest into what I knew were its power cells. I picked up the cable trailing out of my energy weapon, disconnected one of Three’s, and plugged mine in.
----
Murderbot and ART follow a distress signal and find Three at the bottom of an abandoned mining installation.
-
Tags
Summary
Between the mission failure, the mutiny, being shot and a narrow escape led by the weirdest people she's ever met, Leonide has had A DAY.
Finally back in the safety of her quarters, she just wants to relax with a drink (or three) and try and make some sense of what she's just seen and experienced.
Unbeknownst to her, the freshly rogue SecUnit assigned to guard her is also having a day.