Apple TV+'s Murderbot is an insult to Martha Wells

2025-08-10 00:30:00 +0000

My partner is a big fan of Martha Wells’s work, so I was alerted to the Murderbot novellas earlier than many. I’m a big fan of them, and they’re some of the few books to make it into my re-read rotation. Of course, television and film adaptations of books are frequently contentious for the changes they make; fans of the original work disliking the new product is hardly uncommon. There’s definitely a lot of “they didn’t make it like the books so it sucks” in my opinion, but I hope I have a little more to say about the adaptation than that.