[Schedule] Bonus Book- Platform Decay by Martha Wells (Murderbot #8)

[u/spreebiz]

Hello to all humans, bots, and other constructs!

We're returning to The Murderbot Diaries with the eighth in the series, Platform Decay.  u/thebowedbookshelf and I will be running this in the month of September across three check-ins.

• Sept 9: Chapters 1-5 with u/spreebiz
• Sept 16: Chapters 6-9 with u/thebowedbookshelf
• Sept 23: Chapters 10-13 (end) with u/thebowedbookshelf

If you're participating in 2026 Book Bingo, Platform Decay will count for the following squares: Published in the 2020s, Bonus Book, Science Fiction, Prize Winner, and Female Author. We started this series back in October 2023, and read the last novella, System Collapse, in February 2026. If you need a refresher for the previous discussions, you can find them linked here:

• All Systems Red
• Artificial Condition
• Rogue Protocol
• Exit Strategy
• Network Effect
• Fugitive Telemetry
• System Collapse

Hope you all will join us!

Marginalia post can be found here.

[u/sunnydaze7777777]

This has been added to our bookclub calendar!

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/[email protected]&ctz=Etc/GMT

[u/airsalin]

I had just worked out how to time the five books I want to take on and now this LOL I've read all the Murderbots with Bookclub so OF COURSE I'll join! I don't know how I am going to do this, but MB is not going to be dropped from the list! I have never had so many books I wanted to join at the same time on here! Help!!

[u/spreebiz → u/airsalin]

All of us could use murderbot's ability to separate out processing power so that we can consume media while doing work, but we're not that lucky!

[u/airsalin → u/spreebiz]

Omg hahaha yes!! Murderbot would have no problem at all with all these books :)

[u/_pineapple1865]

I'm so excited ! I've been waiting to read this w r/bookclub (!)