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Authors and Websites
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Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.My Immortal Sanctuary Moon
by st_aurafina
- Recommended by: malonromani
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The shock cancellation of Sanctuary Moon leads the Murderbot to seek new forms of entertainment.
- Comments: Just like the reader is probably craving more Murderbot shenanigans after finishing all available books, Murderbot needs more Sanctuary Moon.
- Rating: G
- Tags: Murderbot, Sanctuary Moon, Future Fic, Space Flight, Artificial Intelligence, Characters Writing Fanfiction
Add Review- Recommended by: Adothan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Hi, I said, along with amusement sigil 159 = wave. It seemed a little inadequate, but what do you say to the ship that radically altered your appearance, helped you figure out your past, and also threatened you with terrifying weapons? Amusement sigils seemed like my best bet.
- Comments: really lovely character interactions
- Rating: G
- Tags: Plot driven, locked room murder mystery
- Recommended by: Adothan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: We are defined by what we do.
- Comments: Missing scene fic for what happened to Murderbot between the last two chapters of the first novella. Exactly what I needed to read after it chose to leave and ripped my heart out.
- Rating: G
- Tags: missing scene
- Recommended by: Adothan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: This is the whole sorry story of how I cracked my governor module. It’s not a great story. I fell in a hole and there was a lot of snow.
- Comments: A nice take on how this might have happened. The prose and plot are very Original Flavour murderbot.
- Rating: G
- Tags: pre-canon, backstory
- Recommend by: Adothan
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Murderbot hitches a ride on a starliner, makes a friend, and saves space Yuletide.
- Comments: there are a lot of different takes on Murderbot interacting with Fandom, and this is probably my favourite. ShipShip is adorable.
- Rating: G
- Tags: fandom, fan culture, meta, space pirates
Threat As Greeting by FlipSrping
- Recommended by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
- Comments: ART and Murderbot's meeting, from ART's perspective. An excellent AI POV.
- Rating: G
- Tags: POV swap, podfic available
- Recommended by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING].
- Comments: Exploration of the awful things Murderbot was forced to do while governed, how corporate powers might try to get rogue SecUnits under control, and how to move on after trauma.
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Tags: post Network Effect
- Recommend by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: The Murderbot Diaries, re-told from Dr. Mensah's POV.
- Comments: From first 'meeting' in company headquarters, the disasterous survey, Mensah's imprisonment, to their stumbling attempts at recovery, this is a beautiful outsider POV on Murderbot.
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Tags: canon compliant
- Recommended by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
- Comments: A lovely character study of Pin-Lee, and her odd friendship with Murderbot.
- Rating: G
- Tags: fluff, canon compliant
discomfort protocol by broken_risk_assessment_module
- Recommended by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "Could one of us pretend to be a ComfortUnit?" Ratthi asked.
- Comments: Pin-Lee, Murderbot, and Gurathin go undercover at a corporate conference, with the latter posing as a ComfortUnit. Espionage, action, feelings!
- Rating: G
- Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Consensual Touching, Dehumanization, Heist vibes
Alternate Universes
Stories where things diverge from canon, in either large or small ways.There is actually a way out from between a reinforced steel bulkhead and a hard place, but you're definitely not gonna like it by Dooiney_Oie
- Recommended by: Dragon-Elexus
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The middle of All Systems Red, but with a few changes to how those pesky combat override modules work, among other things :)
- Comments: An AU where Combat Override Modules don't work on SecUnits. MB is never forcibly outed as rogue, but with questions piling up, it might have to come out of its own free will...
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Tags: canon divergence
NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad (Series) by FlipSpring
- Recommended by: serbii
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Consider this series if you like: feral shit, disaster, continuity of identity+memory, societies of people with divergent needs/wants, chaos, robot creation ethics, violence vs security, suffering, healing, bad puns. It is time to embark on a team-building road trip from hell.
- At the end of Exit Strategy, the Combat SecUnit succeeds at capturing Murderbot.
- Murderbot is subjected to Palisade's construct research lab as they attempt to figure out what makes it tick as a rogue.
- The Combat SecUnit is A (Problematic) Character.
- Disaster ensues
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Tags: canon divergence
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The Body Electric by atonomasia09
- Recommend: Adothan
- Status: complete
- Fandoms: Murderbot & the Penumbra Podcast
- Synopsis: Juno takes a new case: track down and eliminate the rogue SecUnit in Hyperion City.
- Comments: Rita and Murderbot bonding over streams! Perfection!
- Rating: G
- Tags: crossover, the penumbra podcast
Handshake Protocol by st_aurafina
- Recommend: malonromani
- Status: Complete
- Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Middleman, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Imperial Radch Series
- Synopsis: Murderbot doesn't want to be a hero or take part in someone's incredible journey. Why does it keep bumping into people who think it will?
- Comments: Even if you aren't part of the fandom for every series referenced, this is an enjoyable study of how Murderbot just can't keep itself from caring about other people.
- Rating: G
- Tags: Crossover, Travel, Time Travel, 5 Things, Grumpy A.I.s, Elevator Music, This is not a hero's journey okay
The Human Factor by Arachnia_QotSP
- Recommend: GG Crono
- Status: Complete
- Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries, Vorkosigan Saga
- Synopsis: In one part of the universe, ART and Murderbot are trying to steal a corporate database, and it's being far more complicated than it should be. In another part of the universe, a strange ship has come through a suspicious new wormhole near Barrayar. When Miles and Ekaterin are flown into the wormhole against their wills, what shenanigans can these gremlins get up to together?
- Comments: Post-canon for Vorkosigan, canon-compliant as of *System Collapse* for TMBD. If you're at all familiar with both of these series, then the thought of Murderbot and Miles Vorkosigan interacting with each-other should be all it takes to get you to read this.
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Tags: Crossover, Post-Canon
