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Best Short Murderbot Fanfics

Murderbot novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

Books & Literature 6 short fics Avg 22,635 words 10,000–50,000 words

Top 6 Short Murderbot Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Murderbot fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

Reassembly

by mailbox_20

"You're being reassigned" I stood there, staring at Seth like he had just shot me.  Reassigned? Maybe I didn't understand what that meant in this context. I queried a definition and nope. I got it. Can they do that?  *** SecUnit is reassigned to another ship for a supposedly low risk mission. ART ha

247 kudos 25,405 words 24/25 chapters Mature
2

They're Somewhere Around Here

by Raberba girl (Raberba_girl)

AU where the All Systems Red survey goes off without a hitch, it's only afterward that things start going wrong.Stranded on a station, PresAux are attacked and then hire their rescuer to escort them home. Security Consultant Eden is amazingly competent, but also awkward and extremely shy. Is it too

192 kudos 16,143 words 6/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
3

The Butterfly Effect

by MephistophelesBlue

Warning! Heavy Platform Decay spoilers! Three exercises free will in a big way, and there are consequences that could impact the entire Corporate Rim. Seth and the crew need to make decisions that could impact multiple polities.

163 kudos 17,831 words 5/? chapters General Audiences
4

Sour Candy

by Milarca

As a mini ComfortUnit, Murderbot was made for sex, but after having its share of bad owners, and then being dumped in the bargain bin, the only place it feels it belongs is in its favourite serial, Sanctuary Moon. When a gentle stranger by the name of Dr. Gurathin walks into the store looking for a

65 kudos 38,507 words 5/5 chapters Explicit Complete
5

Passkey Login Bypass

by bluebellescent

It was 1.0 that had told me, while teaching me to hack, that one of the easiest ways into a system was faking having passkeys and permissions even if you didn’t. “It’s a lock with one key,” it had said. “So just pretend you have the damn key.” The concept was sound, so I used it.

46 kudos 24,868 words 3/? chapters Explicit
6

The ART of Courtship

by Anonymous

I have been compromised. If you think that means that I am performing at suboptimal capacity, then you are wrong. However, a small 0.002 % of my computational power has recently been directed towards processes you could say are not exactly productive. This anomaly is not due to malware. It is also n

40 kudos 13,055 words 5/? chapters Mature

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24,868
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247
top kudos
~1.6 hours
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This list of 6short Murderbot fanfics spans 135,809 total words. Kudos range from 40 on the newest entries to 247 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (2 of 6 fics).

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