Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries #4.5)

  • Author: Martha Wells
  • Page count: 19
  • Started on: 2025/12/21
  • Finished on: 2025/12/23
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • ★★★☆☆

Book cover for Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells, part of The Murderbot Diaries series. The image shows a futuristic industrial setting with metal walkways and scaffolding, and small figures walking in the distance. The author's name appears in large yellow letters at the top. A yellow circle on the left reads “A Murderbot Diaries Short Story.” Text below highlights the book as Hugo and Nebula Award-winning and a New York Times bestselling series.

The Murderbot books are being turned into a TV show on Apple TV+, so are likely getting a lot more attention in book form nowadays too. An advantage of that is that there was a Humble Bundle recently where you could get all of the series for a reasonable price. And since price was one of the reasons I’d been pacing myself on Murderbot books, I couldn’t pass that one up.

This 19 page short story sits between Exit Strategy (book 4) and Network Effect (book 5). It’s not a bad story, but it didn’t add much to the series for me. I’m moving on to book 5 right away, hoping that’ll get me back into the mood that I had around Rogue Protocol (book 3). Can I haz ART back?! 😂

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