--- product_id: 124987722 title: "Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries" price: "$49.11" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.ec/products/124987722-rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries store_origin: EC region: Ecuador --- # Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries **Price:** $49.11 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries - **How much does it cost?** $49.11 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ec](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/124987722-rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries eBook : Wells, Martha: Kindle Store Review: Enjoyable, Quirky, and frequently hilarious space/fantasy adventure - Note: I have read all 4 currently installments of this series. The review is not particular to any one book in the series. TL; DR: These are fun books to read. The writing is wry, witty, and effective. The only objections to the Murderbot Diaries I can think of, are: 1) They are expensive for their length. Four of these books make up one full length novel. 2) Do not read as Science fiction. These books are more in the "Fantasy Adventure" genre. More (no spoilers): They are fun. Read them as comedy based on human nature (and frequently folly), and try to enjoy the occasional, sometimes almost philosophical, musings that arise from the fact that the protagonist is a security robot (SecBot), made from both organic and non-organic parts, living in and interacting with human society, "sort of" like a human. Its job and single purpose is to protect "its humans" (clients) from all threats (including other humans) in hostile environments. As the title of the series suggests, the stories are told by the protagonist SecBot. For some reason, I tend to think of the secbot as male, but I guess it really is - well, er, an "it". It is wary of humans, doesn't really "like" or "dislike" humans, but is not comfortable looking a person in the eye, or even standing close to one. It is easily bored, and often will resort to watching "Media feeds" on a compulsive level. It is constantly going through some sort of identity crisis. It finds itself wanting to help humans out when they make "stupid decisions made on the basis of bad information", while at the same time trying hard not to care what its humans / clients are up to at any given moment. There are some exciting action scenes, some fulfilling violence, a lot of intrigue, and some more or less complex plot turns. I've seen these books labelled as "Science Fiction". As such, the "Science" bit is not particularly impressive. It is superficially described as very distant future tech and serves mostly as an enabler for the robot concepts. I read this series as a funny, although sometimes thoughtful, fantasy/adventure action-comedy epic, and I believe that is what it's meant to be. Story wise, the series is not a very challenging read. Which is fine, really. It's not "Solaris", nor does it pretend to be. I find the writing to be effective and dynamic. The language is compact, energetic, very vivid and alive. Some sentences are funny gems, and then occasionally, a passage or two will come off as understated and profound. Highly enjoyable and recommended read. I had to choose between 4 and 5, and for me it's closer to 5, even if the books are somewhat expensive and short. Review: Entertaining story, very well performed, wish these could be longer - This review is similar to my earlier review for the first book in the series, so I'll just repeat it since the same comments apply: I have no complaints about the audiobook adaptations of Martha Wells' "Murderbot" series, and found the voice performance to be excellent, lending Murderbot a unique but relatable voice even as he keeps announcing how much he dislikes humans, finds them annoying, and wishes they'd just leave him alone to view his media. My chief critique has to do with value-for-money, in that these are novella-length stories usually sold at a premium cost, which I'm not crazy about. The earliest stories strike me more as a single big novel chopped into small pieces, each of which is self-contained but still not complete stories in and of themselves as they clearly connect to the others in an obvious chronological sequence. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0756JSWGL | | Accessibility | Learn more | | Best Sellers Rank | #4,048 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #5 in Kindle Singles: Science Fiction & Fantasy #6 in Crime & Mystery Science Fiction #7 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Books) | | Book 3 of 8 | The Murderbot Diaries | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (32,085) | | Enhanced typesetting | Enabled | | File size | 2.5 MB | | ISBN-13 | 978-1250185433 | | Language | English | | Page Flip | Enabled | | Print length | 150 pages | | Publication date | August 7, 2018 | | Publisher | Tordotcom | | Screen Reader | Supported | | Word Wise | Enabled | | X-Ray | Enabled | ## Images ![Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81AmZLF3RhL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Enjoyable, Quirky, and frequently hilarious space/fantasy adventure *by K***W on February 4, 2019* Note: I have read all 4 currently installments of this series. The review is not particular to any one book in the series. TL; DR: These are fun books to read. The writing is wry, witty, and effective. The only objections to the Murderbot Diaries I can think of, are: 1) They are expensive for their length. Four of these books make up one full length novel. 2) Do not read as Science fiction. These books are more in the "Fantasy Adventure" genre. More (no spoilers): They are fun. Read them as comedy based on human nature (and frequently folly), and try to enjoy the occasional, sometimes almost philosophical, musings that arise from the fact that the protagonist is a security robot (SecBot), made from both organic and non-organic parts, living in and interacting with human society, "sort of" like a human. Its job and single purpose is to protect "its humans" (clients) from all threats (including other humans) in hostile environments. As the title of the series suggests, the stories are told by the protagonist SecBot. For some reason, I tend to think of the secbot as male, but I guess it really is - well, er, an "it". It is wary of humans, doesn't really "like" or "dislike" humans, but is not comfortable looking a person in the eye, or even standing close to one. It is easily bored, and often will resort to watching "Media feeds" on a compulsive level. It is constantly going through some sort of identity crisis. It finds itself wanting to help humans out when they make "stupid decisions made on the basis of bad information", while at the same time trying hard not to care what its humans / clients are up to at any given moment. There are some exciting action scenes, some fulfilling violence, a lot of intrigue, and some more or less complex plot turns. I've seen these books labelled as "Science Fiction". As such, the "Science" bit is not particularly impressive. It is superficially described as very distant future tech and serves mostly as an enabler for the robot concepts. I read this series as a funny, although sometimes thoughtful, fantasy/adventure action-comedy epic, and I believe that is what it's meant to be. Story wise, the series is not a very challenging read. Which is fine, really. It's not "Solaris", nor does it pretend to be. I find the writing to be effective and dynamic. The language is compact, energetic, very vivid and alive. Some sentences are funny gems, and then occasionally, a passage or two will come off as understated and profound. Highly enjoyable and recommended read. I had to choose between 4 and 5, and for me it's closer to 5, even if the books are somewhat expensive and short. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Entertaining story, very well performed, wish these could be longer *by B***M on October 21, 2025* This review is similar to my earlier review for the first book in the series, so I'll just repeat it since the same comments apply: I have no complaints about the audiobook adaptations of Martha Wells' "Murderbot" series, and found the voice performance to be excellent, lending Murderbot a unique but relatable voice even as he keeps announcing how much he dislikes humans, finds them annoying, and wishes they'd just leave him alone to view his media. My chief critique has to do with value-for-money, in that these are novella-length stories usually sold at a premium cost, which I'm not crazy about. The earliest stories strike me more as a single big novel chopped into small pieces, each of which is self-contained but still not complete stories in and of themselves as they clearly connect to the others in an obvious chronological sequence. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gaining depth as it goes on *by F***N on August 16, 2018* I -adored- the first Murderbot Diaries, and loved it as a stand-alone story. Of course, I was delighted that Tor.com wanted to continue the story with three more novellas. In some ways, this is a much tighter story than the first two -- there's a single, high-intensity action narrative that picks up shortly after a scene-setting intro. It's a wonderful and creepy locale (abandoned space station!) with a relatively small cast, but the interesting bit for the reader is how much Murderbot has changed while it adamantly denies having changed. I'm trying to think of a less HR-inflected way to say this, but it has to own its own agency in this story. It's not pretending to be simply a tool, or an augmented human, but an actual independent entity. There's a lot of compare-and-contrast with a new character, Miki, a human-form bot who isn't a brilliant and scary shipmind like ART (previous story) or one of the many functional bots that form the background (and many of the acquaintances) of Murderbot and its story, but just a very sweet, innocent (but not stupid) individual. Murderbot trying desperately not to deal with the emotional impact of seeing how its existence might have been if humans had been kinder manages to be heartbreaking and hilarious ("..I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private."). Murderbot is sulky, stubborn, and slowly coming around to the realization that it is actually pretty good at protecting humans, and it is far more invested in the welfare of its Preservation Aux team (from "All Systems Red") than it wanted to admit. It's also got a serious grudge against the villains from that story, which it is much more comfortable admitting. All of which is a rambling way of saying this novella is a blast; it's a fun, fast paced story with a terrific main character. There are a lot of cleverly placed bits of foreshadowing that showed up on the re-read, but the emotional punch is pretty solid. 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