Initially, given the character’s name, Wells thinks people were expecting a different kind of story. Inside the Octavia Butler archives at the Huntington Library, Lynell George found a hidden world.Schwab talks ‘Addie LaRue’: ‘I was afraid every single moment’ ‘Binti’ novelist Nnedi Okorafor reveals how new book reflects back on the pandemic.Denise Hamilton talks setting writers loose on ‘Speculative Los Angeles’.Seanan McGuire, award-winning fantasy author, talks new novel and her Marvel Comics dream.“It’s really interesting to see the whole range of different situations people are in where they look at Murderbot and say, ‘Yeah, I feel just like that.” Related links “I think that’s one of the things that a lot of people identify with,” says Wells about the emotional elements. Wells delivers creative science-fiction thrills, such as when Murderbot controls swarms of drones that give readers a dazzling range of first-person points of view on the action, along with emotional depth by exploring issues such as alienation and anxiety. Wells’s publisher just announced this week in a press release that they’d reached an agreement for 6 more books, “the largest deal for the imprint to date,” which will include three Murderbot books and three unrelated titles, starting with “Witch King” next year.) After 2017’s “All Systems Red,” Wells published three more novellas and the 2020 novel “Network Effect.” Now there’s “Fugitive Telemetry,” a new novella to be published April 27 by Tordotcom, in which Murderbot must solve, not commit, a murder. Despite its intimidating name, Murderbot spends its time watching what sounds suspiciously like soap operas when not protecting - or avoiding - its human clients, colleagues and friends.
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