Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8) by Martha Wells Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Series: Murderbot Diaries #8
on May 5, 2026
Genres: Science
Pages: 256
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Format: Audiobook
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Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for... eye contact!
(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)
I had the release date of Platform Decay in my calendar with an alarm. The Murderbot Diaries are my comfort books, and I have listened to the audiobooks at least three or four times. Having a new one come out was an exciting event.
I listened to the audio version, as I did for previous books. I simply love Kevin R. Free’s portrayal of Murderboot, and I will never get tired of it.
The book starts in medias res with Three trying to enter a torus around a planet, a setting we don’t often see in literature. There is plenty of action similar to that from previous books, and we feel the urgency, but we still don’t know why. I don’t want to reveal much about the plot and spoil the book for anyone reading this, but Murderbot is again on a rescue mission. The side characters are not ones I was very familiar with, but Martha Wells has a great ability to create characters that we love; good people that deserve to be rescued and that help Murderbot grow.
Compared to previous books, there isn’t much new we haven’t seen before, but that is part of this book’s power. It is a world I longed to return to, a book to be comfortable in, and a story that left my heart warm when I finished it.
We don’t see much of Art in this book, so I hope, please, please, Martha, that we get a new story soon. Possibly with Murderbot, Art, and Three in it.
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My name is Elena. Since I was a little child I loved science fiction and fantasy, and I can’t resist a good novel. In 2015, while wait I started to listen to audiobooks and I discovered the pleasure in being able to read while doing my daily tasks, so there’s always an audiobook playing on my phone. If you see me with my Bluetooth headphones on, please be gentle, I get easily startled.
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