The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new futuristic standalone novel exploring
sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four
from Marina 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 its 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 reprograming and interstellar conflict. Most robots
are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its way to becoming something more....
