This month’s science fiction and fantasy books feature a flying cyborg who loses her wings, a spaceship on the run and a shape-shifting creature who falls in love.

First, the oh-so-perfectly titled “Murderbot Diaries.” In Martha Wells’s series a cyborg security agent has managed to hack his own systems, thereby freeing himself from being compelled to ...

Science Fiction and Fantasy: ‘System Collapse’ by Martha Wells. ... a Security Unit cyborg usually tasked with killing troublesome people and controlled by a module that eliminates free will.