Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6)

  • Author: Martha Wells
  • Page count: 172
  • Started on: 2026/03/25
  • Finished on: 2026/03/28
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • ★★★☆☆

Book cover of Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells. A humanoid figure in a spacesuit walks beside a tall, multi-limbed robot in a futuristic industrial corridor. Large green title text appears at the top, with a quote from NPR on the left. Subtitle reads “The Murderbot Diaries,” with award mention and “New York Times bestselling series” at the bottom.

All Murderbot books are relatively short, but this is classified as a novella rather than a full novel. I don’t mind that, though, as any story about a rogue security robot figuring out its place in a world of humans and non-rogue robots is fun.

In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot and its human companions are at a space station where a murder has just been committed. Murderbot is asked by the human security team to help unravel the mystery. As usual, this includes lots of feelings on Murderbot’s part, continued exploration of its values and morals, and a slowly growing cadre of humans who treat it as a member of ‘the team’.

I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the previous entry in the series. The self-narration by Murderbot of its feelings towards humans and TV shows is getting repetitive, especially in a book of well under 200 pages. The plot itself was interesting, but I really hope future books in the series pick up the pace and developer the plot a bit more.

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