System Collapse (preorder)

(preorder—shipping this Summer)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Jaime Jones.

Everyone’s favorite security unit Murderbot is still reeling from the events of Network Effect, so much so it is redacting information from itself. Who can blame it? Barish-Estranza has dispatched more SecUnits and supposed rescue ships, but the colony of humans on this planet may be in grave danger of becoming permanently indentured workers for the predatory corporation.

Meanwhile ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are running interference to protect the colonists. But unless Murderbot’s operating parameters start functioning again, they may be a lost cause…

Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries have been bestsellers and have won the coveted Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. This seventh novel installment, System Collapse, was a New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller. System Collapse more than thrills, delivering Wells’ trademark blend of action and humor with deep questions about what it means to be sentient, all told, of course, in the inimitable voice of Murderbot.

Both editions will be:

• Printed offset in two colors (black and Pantone®) on 70# archival quality paper in Opaque Bright White
• Signed by Martha Wells
• Art by Jaime Jones
• Seven pen-and-ink interior illustrations
• Smyth-sewn binding
• 208 pages

The limited edition will be casebound in cloth, with foil stamping on the spine of the book. It includes a full color wraparound dust jacket.

The lettered edition will be quarter bound in dark brown leather, with marbled paper by Papiers Prina covering the boards. The endsheets will be Huun handmade paper, which will be repeated in the traycase. (This description is subject to change, depending on availability of materials.)

This will be the first SubPress lettered edition to feature spine hubs in a decade-and-a-half!

Lettered: 26 signed copies, bound as listed above, housed in a custom traycase

Limited: 750 signed numbered hardcover copies