Martha Wells is a New York Times best-selling author of 23 works of science fiction and fantasy. This story is a prequel to The Murderbot Diaries, her Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novella series. A short story of Murderbot originating from a Wired magazine “Future of Work” anthology. (https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)