System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
by Martha Wells
Will be published November 14th 2023 by Tordotcom…
Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.
But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!
https://www.tor.com/2023/01/24/cover-reveal-murderbot-system-collapse-by-martha-wells/
Oh, and there will a new Singing Hills novella in September!
Mammoths at the Gate (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
by Nghi Vo
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest.
Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass–and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal mammoths, demanding their grandfather’s body for burial. Chih must somehow balance honoring their mentor’s chosen life while keeping the sisters from the north from storming the gates and destroying the history the clerics have worked so hard to preserve.
https://www.tor.com/2023/01/25/cover-reveal-mammoths-at-the-gate-by-nghi-vo/
Not sure if I will get it, this will be another spur-of-the-moment decision in September!
Cathy's Reading Bonanza 
Yay! Another full-length Murderbot novel! And I knew about the next Singing Hills book, but I hadn’t seen the cover yet. It’s pretty!
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System Collapse only seems to be 180 pages. But I don‘t mind, the full-length novel was the one I liked the least so far.
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Oh, interesting. I guess I assumed that if it was following the full novel, it would also be a full novel. Whatever. I’ll take Murderbot in whatever format we get it in.
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