Martha Wells's All Systems Red
Teen Creeps
Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week Kelly and Katai read ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Kelly, the first in the MURDERBOT DIARIES series of sci-fi novellas about an anxious, morose security android who hacks its software to have free will, but who has to keep his day job or be found out. They talk loving Murderbot, technical trip-ups in reading, the Pantsuit Nation feel of Preservation Alliance, the Apple TV series adaptation, what they’re watching/playing, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Martha Wells is All Systems Red. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, welcome to Teen Creeps, the podcast that discusses why Pulp Fiction and sad horror. |
| 0:25.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:26.2 | And discusses whatever we like. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm one of your host, Lindsay K-Tai. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm one of your host, Kelly Nugent. |
| 0:33.8 | And today we are talking about the first in the Murder Bot Diary series, All Systems Red by Martha Wells. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, we're basically covering, like, if you know, you know. |
| 0:46.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:47.0 | Like, where it's like, if it's the vibe of our show, then it is. |
| 0:50.6 | Like, I can't really, I can't really explain to you. |
| 0:53.7 | If you've listened for the last 10 years, all of our choices make sense. If not, less so. But like, also, who's new at this point? Who's new? Who's new? Who are we finding who's new? I'd be astounded. If you're new. We have ceased promoting ourselves. Send us a picture. We're not on a network. Send us a picture of yourself with today's newspaper. Yes. So that we know. So that we know you're real. Because otherwise. Because otherwise. And that does, it makes sense. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but, yeah, today it's all systems read. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes, which is the first of the murder-bought diaries. |
| 1:33.1 | A nice short sci-fi. |
| 1:36.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:37.7 | Really enjoyable. |
| 1:39.4 | Really cute. |
| 1:39.9 | A little too heavy on the technical writing for my taste, where I was like really trying to wrap my head around |
| 1:50.6 | what they were actually doing with all these pieces of machinery and, and like, what a space, |
| 1:59.7 | how a space station actually works and how things fly and how this is how I was like really trying to stay with it when I needed to just let the technical writing wash over me so that I didn't lose the story because it did take me longer to read trying to do that. |
| 2:16.2 | Yeah. |
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