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Author: Edgaras

Dennis E. Taylor

Bobiverse fans: a signed limited edition of all three books in a boxed set, signed by the author, is now available on Amazon. Look for The Bobiverse [Signed Limited Edition] on Amazon Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9% of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth uninhabitable; a radical group wants to finish the job on the remnants of humanity; the Brazilian space probes are still out there, still trying to blow up the competition; And the Bobs have discovered a spacefaring species that sees all other life as food. Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he's become a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every living thing in the local sphere from ending up as dinner.

For We Are Many

Edgaras

joe kimberlin

Janice Hopper

12/9/20: Dammit, after my tepid review of the first book, I found I kept thinking about some of the stuff that was going on and wondering what was going to happen. So I bought the second one in spite of myself.

12/10/20: And I read it in two days. And my caveats about the first book still apply. ::facepalm:: There's still (TO ME) too much innovation coming out of one brain, even though that one brain is spread over many instances. 

This may constitute spoilers, so I'll hide it:

(view spoiler)[ while the depredations of The Big Bad that showed up at the end of the first book are bad, the only differences between what they're doing and what the Bobs do is a) the degree of pulling materials out of a system and b) it's Our Guys doing it. Also, there's a lot of ecological damage being made by the Bobs. There's an inconvenient organism on a world? Make it go extinct, or virtually extinct. No interrogation of what kind of ripple effects through the world there might be. It's all in service to Humanity. In that way, this is a pretty old-fashioned SF story. 
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It's still a fairly quick, breezy read, one that's very like the first book. Except now we can also see that the Bobs may have an existential crisis starting to arise.

I will probably read another in the series just to know what happens with the plot lines that were left dangling. And I'm sure I'll be frustrated by it too.

Too damn picky. That's me all over.

Cecilie Nielsen

Pam Sartain

This was a very good sequel, and I am going to read the next book to find out how it all ends!

Dani

¿Reseñas a la cultura popular en dosis decentes?
Sí, se puede.

Anyaconda

Can't get enough of this series! I wish it would be as long as WOT.

26/05/2021 - reread via audiobook 🎧
Love, love, love it 😍

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