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Book cover of 'Platform Decay' by Martha Wells featuring a robot in space.
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Platform Decay

Platform Decay

by Martha Wells

Series: The Murderbot Diaries #8

$24.99
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A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily!

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of 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--)

Book Details

Publisher: Tordotcom

First Published: May 5, 2026

Pages:

  • Hardcover: 256

ISBN:

  • Hardcover: 9781250827005

Physical Information:
Woman wearing glasses and a red patterned top sitting at a table.
About the Author

Martha Wells

Martha Wells has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, and was adapted into an Apple Original TV series. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.

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