{"id":432,"date":"2020-06-20T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=432"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:18:40","slug":"books-network-effect-a-murderbot-novel-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/06\/20\/books-network-effect-a-murderbot-novel-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel, by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-4.27.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-4.27.46-PM.png 546w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-4.27.46-PM-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of Martha Wells&#8217; new novel, Network Effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel<br><\/strong>by Martha Wells<br>published by <a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.tor.com\/\">Tor<\/a><br>2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Martha Wells has published the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries, and she hit the word count to be a full-length novel while doing so, which is a big WIN for all of us Murderbot fans! <em><strong>More Murderbot to love!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>First: if you haven&#8217;t read all four of the novellas, you really <strong>must<\/strong> do so: not only because they are awesome, but because they are part of one story, and you need to read those to understand the characters and events that appear here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay: the novel is <strong>fantastic<\/strong>.  It is fun!  <span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">It combines the heavy action, emotional angst, sincere affection for certain humans, profane internal monologue, gender-neutral grammar, and inter-robot-friendship you have come to know and love. <\/span> Adventure! Drama! Alien artifacts!  Wells&#8217; writing continues to be delightful, concise, and fantastic.  The greater page length delivers more of the same joy the novellas did, in the same style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book made my day.  Murderbot fans can rejoice in this novel, and look forward to more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Effect: A Murderbot Novelby Martha Wellspublished by Tor2020 Yes, Martha Wells has published the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries, and she hit the word count to be a full-length novel while doing so, which is a big WIN for all of us Murderbot fans! More Murderbot to love! First: if you haven&#8217;t read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/06\/20\/books-network-effect-a-murderbot-novel-by-martha-wells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel, by Martha Wells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}