Your Guide to The Murderbot Diaries Series: Reading All the Books in Order Okay, but seriously—if you’ve never heard of a robot who just wants to chill out and binge-watch crappy soap operas, then man, you’re missing out on Murderbot . Martha Wells ’ " The Murderbot Diaries " is basically peak sci-fi comfort food: action, snark, drama, and a robot protagonist who’s about a thousand times more relatable than half the humans I know. Here’s the deal: Murderbot’s this badass security android (we’re talking full-on robot limbs, a splash of human tissue, and a serious attitude problem) who busts open its own programming just so it can STOP being a mindless bodyguard and START catching up on, I don’t know, decades of trashy TV. No joke, all Murderbot really wants is some alone time with its media library—but fate (and, let’s be honest, a parade of helpless humans) keeps screwing that up. To its annoyance, Murderbot kee...