Get Every Murderbot Diaries Book & 7 Martha Wells Fantasy Novels For Only $18

If you enjoyed Season 1 of Murderbot on Apple TV+ and haven’t read the award-winning books the sci-fi comedy is based on, the latest Humble Book Bundle should be on your radar. Martha Wells’ Murderbot & More is a jam-packed ebook bundle featuring every novella, novel, and short story in The Murderbot Diaries series as well as several of the author’s acclaimed fantasy novels. The full $18 comes with a total of nine novels, five novellas, and two short stories in the Murderbot universe.

All of the ebooks in this Humble Bundle are EPUB format, the universal standard for electronic books, so you will be able to enjoy your new books on any device with your preferred reading app. And like all Humble Bundles, your purchase will benefit a great cause. A portion of your payment will go to the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing food insecurity across the globe. The WCK works to create sustainable programs and steps in during times of humanitarian crises and in the wake of natural disasters. Proceeds from your purchase are split between the WCK, Humble, and Macmillan Publishers, and you can manually adjust the percentages to give more/less to each party.

Just like in the critically acclaimed TV series, the protagonist in The Murderbot Diaries is a SecUnit, a humanoid security construct with cloned tissue and cutting-edge mechanical components. After hacking and disabling his governor module, SecUnit becomes an autonomous being. He picks the name Murderbot, which succinctly describes his primary function as a private security construct. To avoid being destroyed for breaking free, Murderbot carries on as a planet-hopping bodyguard protects and kills for the humans who view him as an object. Murderbot copes with his miserable existence by becoming obsessed with the sci-fi soap opera he watches in his mind instead of paying attention to the missions at hand.

The Apple TV+ Murderbot adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard holds an exceedingly impressive 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. As is often the case, however, the source material is better. The books are written from Murderbot’s perspective, so you’re viewing the events through the eyes of someone who only recently became in control of his existence. Though his perspective includes moments of levity, the strength of the character is his personal reckoning with his uncontrollable past and his search for purpose and connection in an unforgiving world.

If you’d prefer physical editions of The Murderbot Diaries, check out the paperback collections and matching hardcover editions below. The hardcover edition of Platform Decay is available to preorder for $25 at Amazon. Fans of The Rising World can preorder the hardcover edition of Queen Demon for $27 (was $30) ahead of its October 7 release.

Earlier this year, Tor released a trio of budget-friendly paperbacks. Volume 1 collects All Systems Red and Artificial Condition, the first two novellas in the series. Amazon has The Murderbot Diaries Volume 1 for $14.35 (was $20). The first two Murderbot books won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in back-to-back years. Volume 2 collects the third and fourth novellas for $20, and Volume 3 includes the standalone novella Fugitive Telemetry and System Collapse for $17 (was $23). The MSRP is slightly higher for Volume 3 because System Collapse is a full-length novel.

The potentially confusing aspect of these paperback collections is that they exclude Book 5, Network Effect. Network Effect was the first full-length Murderbot novel. At 352 pages, Network Effect is longer than two novellas on its own. If you opt for these paperbacks, you need to buy Network Effect separately, as System Collapse is a direct sequel. The paperback edition of Network Effect is $13.89 (was $20). Wells won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for Best Novel for Network Effect.

Paperback Volumes 1-3 plus a copy of Network Effect would cost you roughly $65 right now.

All five Murderbot novellas and the two novels remain in print as standalone hardcover books, too. With the exception of All Systems Red and Network Effect, Tor hasn’t published standalone paperback editions of The Murderbot Diaries. If you want to own individual, matching copies, hardcover is your only option. But considering most are on sale for around 50% off or more, it’s certainly not a bad option. Based on today’s prices, Books 1-7 cost roughly $92 total–$27 more than the paperbacks discussed above.

1. All Systems Red — $14 ($25)
2. Artificial Condition — $11.74 ($20)
3. Rogue Protocol — $10.35 ($25)
4. Exit Strategy — $12.31 ($24)
5. Network Effect — $16 ($29)
6. Fugitive Telemetry — $11.87 ($25)
7. System Collapse — $16.20 ($25)
8. Platform Decay — $25 | Releases May 5, 2026

The first four novellas were collected in a hardcover box set in 2020. It’s on sale for 20% off at Amazon, but the $79.59 price is significantly higher than the combined cost of Books 1-4.