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Cover art: Adam M. Milicevie
Blurb: “THE MURDERBOT DIARIES MAKES FIRST CONTACT IN THIS NEW, FUTURISTIC STAND-ALONE NOVEL EXPLORING SENTIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE LENSES OF CONFLICTED ROBOT HERO UNIT FOUR, FROM MARINA J. LOSTETTER, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NOUMENON, NOUMENON INFINITY, AND NOUMENON ULTRA
When Unit Four a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian
atmosphere—is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now Unit Four's sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat.
But something's wrong. Unit Four doesn't feel quite right.
There are files in its databanks it can't account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers it possesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under orders to seek and destroy. That's all it knows.
According to its handler, that's all it needs to know.
Determined to fulfill its directives, Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, repro-gramming, and interstellar conflict.
Most robots are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its way to becoming something more....
MARINA J. LOSTETTER's original short fiction has appeared in Light-speed's Women Destroy Science Fiction!, InterGalactic Medicine Show,. and other publications. Originally from Oregon, she now lives in Arkansas with her husband, Alex. Marina enjoys globe-trotting, board games, and all things art-related.”