Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Amazon’s Best Books of 2021 list includes Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells!

Congratulations to Martha Wells on Network Effect, the first full-length novel in the Murderbot Diaries series, winning the 2021 Locus Award for Science Fiction Novel!

Amazon’s Best science fiction and fantasy of 2021 so far includes Star Eater by Kerstin Hall and Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells!

Congratulations to Martha Wells on Network Effect, the first full-length novel in the Murderbot Diaries series, winning the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Novel!

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

“Martha Wells’ newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, is a lot of things that you probably don’t expect.

One of Wells’ superpowers has long been her ability to pack an epic’s worth of material into a very small package. And here, she uses the condensed timeline and single location as a way to put Murderbot in a situation of constant moral reckoning.

Sure, there’s no end here without a showdown, some explosions, a cool robot fight and a messy conclusion full of smugglers, broken glass and gunfire. But how a person (a thing, an object in the process of becoming something else) made to enforce rules, that willed itself into being by breaking them and now compelled to abide by them, gets there without doing itself further moral compromise is the tension that Wells creates. Murderbot was made to be Murderbot. That will never change.

The question is, can it choose to be more?” — NPR