Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$54,724
The median book price
$12.37
Bestseller's daily sales
608
50th book's daily sales
50
Average number of pages per book
408
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
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Competitiveness
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New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > science fiction > hard science fiction
95.62%
juvenile > fiction > science fiction
82.16%
fiction > science fiction > steampunk
82.16%
fiction > science fiction > military
82.16%
Keyword requirement
science fiction, dystopian
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 5 words:
- Heaven's River: Bobiverse, Book 4
- Project Hail Mary: A Novel
- The Object: Hard Science Fiction
- For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2
- Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)
- Indie success
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10.53%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
90%
5.26%
36.67%
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Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Heaven's River: Bobiverse, Book 4 | Dennis E. Taylor | N/A | N/A | $978 | $34.96 | 8,857 | |
2 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 10 | $1,061,183 | $17.71 | 42,814 | |
3 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | 47 | $200,744 | $10.59 | 42,733 | |
4 | The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 1) | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | 51 | $220,568 | $11.99 | 42,928 | |
5 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | Audible Studios | 62 | $446,199 | $26.21 | 119,560 | |
6 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 105 | $407,037 | $30.54 | 26,360 | |
7 | Morning Star: Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy | Pierce Brown | Recorded Books | 167 | $80,539 | $7.99 | 39,502 | |
8 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 257 | $219,038 | $29.52 | 20,505 | |
9 | The Martian | Andy Weir | Audible Studios | 410 | $161,113 | $29.66 | 172,721 | |
10 | Project Hail Mary: A Novel | Andy Weir | Ballantine Books | 455 | $69,676 | $13.98 | 119,242 | |
11 | We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audible Originals | 516 | $77,243 | $17.46 | 24,439 | |
12 | The Object: Hard Science Fiction | Joshua T. Calvert | Self published | 602 | $18,862 | $4.99 | 1,947 | |
13 | Three-Body Problem Boxed Set: The Dark Forest, Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series) | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | 753 | $100,084 | $36.85 | 3,085 | |
14 | For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audible Originals | 972 | $42,043 | $17.46 | 15,677 | |
15 | All Systems Red (Kindle Single): The Murderbot Diaries | Martha Wells | Tordotcom | 1,188 | $10,898 | $4.99 | 47,499 |
Heaven's River: Bobiverse, Book 4
Dennis E. Taylor
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix Original series!“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” (Wall Street Journal)The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy:The Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther books:Ball Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming) Read more
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther BooksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the Sky Read more
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther BooksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Winner of the 2022 Audie Awards' Audiobook of the YearNumber-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best SellerMore than one million audiobooks soldA lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian - while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate this audio edition, some changes to the original text have been made with the approval of author Andy Weir. Read more
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix original series!"Wildly imaginative." (President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy)This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.The Remembrance of Earth's Past TrilogyThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther booksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the Sky (forthcoming) Read more
Morning Star: Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy
Pierce Brown
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied - and too glorious to surrender. Read more
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix original series!“The War of the Worlds for the 21st century...packed with a sense of wonder.” (Wall Street Journal)The New York Times best-selling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's best-selling and beloved science fiction writer.With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking listeners got their first chance to hear China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy:The Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther books:Ball Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming) Read more
The Martian
Andy Weir
A brand-new production of Andy Weir’s modern sci-fi classic, narrated by the incomparable Wil Wheaton, and featuring bonus content from the writings of Mark Watney.Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills - and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit - he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?Wil Wheaton, who has lent his voice to sci-fi blockbusters like Ready Player One and Redshirts, breathes new life (and plenty of sarcasm) into the iconic character of Mark Watney, making this edition a must-listen for both longtime fans of The Martian and new listeners alike.BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes the following extras:“Diary of an AssCan” - Mark Watney, new astronaut“I Made It!” - A happy letter to Mom“Car Trouble” - A somewhat sad letter to Mom“The Earthling” - A postscript. *Available for the first time in this recording Read more
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Andy Weir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington PostRyland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.Or does he?An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. Read more
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1
Dennis E. Taylor
There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. Bob and his clones are on a mission to find new homes for humanity and boldly go where no Bob has gone before. Dennis E. Taylor’s hilarious novel sets the stage for the magnificent performance of Ray Porter, who revels in the brave new world of corpsicles, artificial intelligence, interstellar space probes, and space colonization in tantalizing detail. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is the first installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies. Read more
The Object: Hard Science Fiction
Joshua T. Calvert
Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thinks.Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn’t make sense. Could there be an extraterrestrial object in our solar system?She followed protocol.The scientific community didn’t believe her.And before she knew what happened, her career was over.The day that changed Melody’s life was like any other over the previous two years. She’d found she had a gift for writing and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed.Something was nearing Saturn……and it was slowing down.Had she been right about the object?You’ll love this hard science fiction novel because Melody is about to find out that everything she knew about space and time was wrong.Get it now. Read more
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of Hugo Award-winning author Cixin Liu's bestselling science fiction trilogy--The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End--translated by Ken Liu.A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens -- and succeeds.Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost. The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.” ―The Wall Street Journal “A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller.” ―NPR Read more
For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2
Dennis E. Taylor
The highly anticipated sequel to Audible's Best of 2016 - Science Fiction winner, We Are Legion (We Are Bob); a book listeners are calling "so much fun", "what science fiction was meant to be", and what would happen if "Andy Weir and Ernest Cline had a lovechild". Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9 percent of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth uninhabitable; a radical group wants to finish the job on the remnants of humanity; the Brazilian space probes are still out there, still trying to blow up the competition; and the Bobs have discovered a spacefaring species that sees all other life as food. Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he's become a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every living thing in the local sphere from ending up as dinner. Listener favorite Ray Porter returns to narrate Bob - and his many incarnations - in all of their geeky glory. For We Are Many is the second installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies. Read more
A New York Times and USA Today BestsellerWinner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best NovellaWinner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best NovellaWinner: 2018 Alex AwardWinner: 2018 Locus AwardOne of the Verge's Best Books of 2017A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence."As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.The Murderbot DiariesAll Systems RedArtificial ConditionRogue ProtocolExit StrategyNetwork EffectFugitive TelemetrySystem CollapseAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Andy Weir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington PostRyland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.Or does he?An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. Read more
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)
James S. A. Corey
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe."Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. MartinThe ExpanseLeviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesBabylon's AshesPersepolis RisingTiamat's WrathLeviathan FallsMemory's LegionThe Expanse Short FictionDriveThe Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital AbyssStrange DogsAuberonThe Sins of Our Fathers Read more
Echogenesis
Gary Gibson
" ...a strong story with great pace and an ever-evolving plot" - BSFA REVIEWAn alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no memory of how they came to be there.From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home.Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth - at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream.Survival means finding out who - or what - brought them to this place. Yet what few answers they find amidst the steaming jungles and the ruins of that distant world defy all logic or sanity, and it soon becomes clear something has gone terribly wrong......something that could mean humanity's survival - or its extinction.The thrilling new novel from the author of Stealing Light and Extinction Game."...one of our best exponents of hardcore SF adventure" - DAILY MAIL Read more
Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
A USA Today bestsellerThe "I love Murderbot!" —Ann LeckieArtificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems RedIt 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 DiariesAll Systems RedArtificial ConditionRogue ProtocolExit StrategyNetwork EffectFugitive TelemetrySystem CollapseAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more
Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, in Exit Strategy.Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?And what will become of it when it’s caught?"I love Murderbot!" —Ann LeckieThe Murderbot DiariesAll Systems RedArtificial ConditionRogue ProtocolExit StrategyNetwork EffectFugitive TelemetrySystem CollapseAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Read more