“When it first came out, I saw magazines labeling it as ‘robot horror,’ which is kind of funny,” says Wells. Initially, given the character’s name, Wells thinks people were expecting a different kind of story. Inside the Octavia Butler archives at the Huntington Library, Lynell George found a hidden world.

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After 2017’s “All Systems Red,” Wells published three more novellas and the 2020 novel “Network Effect.” Now there’s “Fugitive Telemetry,” a new novella to be published April 27 by Tordotcom, in which Murderbot must solve, not commit, a murder. Despite its intimidating name, Murderbot spends its time watching what sounds suspiciously like soap operas when not protecting - or avoiding - its human clients, colleagues and friends.

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