Bestselling and award-winning author Martha Wells is taking everyone's favorite robot back into the fire in her upcoming book "Platform Decay," which comes out on May 5, 2026.
The book begins with a familiar spark, a rescue, but Wells wanted to push the setting into something stronger and tougher to move through, eventually coming up with another unique sci-fi setting that Murderbot and its friends can navigate while encountering friends, foes and more eye contact. But beneath the action, Wells is still writing to the heart of what makes Murderbot resonate: the desire to help, the limits of what to risk and the lingering weight of what the character has experienced. "Murderbot has been described as a comfort read," Wells told Space.com, because you get to watch someone "be able to take action in situations where you would really like to."
