Geek Bookclub: All Systems Red

Welcome to our Chicago Geek Women Bookclub!! Please join us whether you hate or love the book. If you don't finish it, you are still welcome but expect to be spoiled. The bookclub will meet once a month to discuss the book of that month over dinner.

The book we'll be reading this month is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. We'll be meeting at Ranalli's in Andersonville as usual.

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.