We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)

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Vitriolic Best Buds: He constantly threatens Calvin with violence, but he was still happy to pair up with him to go to Alpha Centauri. When Bob regains consciousness he finds himself in a different century in a world at the brink of nuclear destruction. Colony Ship: The bulk of Riker's plotline revolves around building colony ships to evacuate the 15 million survivors of Earth's nuclear apocalypse.

I will only leave a minor critique and insure that beyond this I can not fault this audiobook in its genre, style, story, writing or the great wit of Dennis Taylor as he tells the story.A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content. Undying Loyalty: He keeps fighting for the Brazilian Empire long after the Brazilian Empire is no more.

it's obvious the author knows his stuff about software, science and other Sci fi titles as the knowledge and facts are littered through but never used incorrectly. Some more detail on how the world ended up a crazy theocracy would have been interesting, although the "Cliff Notes" version was fun. Brain Uploading: A living brain is destructively scanned, where it can be uploaded to a replicant core and activated. This is full of lots of space travel, exploring of planets, terraforming, discovery of aliens, science talk, colonization, and of course THE BOBS AND THE BOBIAN FEDERATION.

Living happily ever after forever with all loved ones could be an option too, but a terribly boring topic for a book without all the escalation options it offers too. This is one of these novels that make people ask themselves why nobody before had this magnificent idea. He leaves for Alpha Centauri with Calvin, despite the fact that they are constantly at each other's throats. With that said I rarely give five stars but for this introduction to the Bobiverse, even though the story slightly faltered by the lack of identity in characters for obvious reasons I think that this is simply an audiobook problem, if it were a text one would be more easily able to orient with each new place and each new "identical character". For me, this worked–more on that shortly–but I can see that if you don’t like the basic Bob character, the whole book would be less appealing.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The tone is humorous, and all the Bobs share a sarcastic sense of humor, a penchant for references to classic sci-fi, and a fundamentally good nature. After surviving an attack in Epsilon Eridani, he makes more clones, then goes off to Delta Eridani alone.It's a pretty original concept -- governments clone human-personality-infused-AIs and send them into space as self-replicating probes to find new planets for humans to inhabit. Everything that didn't directly contribute to "spreading the Word of Our Lord" (read: conquering the rest of the planet) was seen as "sinful" and thus deemed highly illegal. While the original is dead, the copy can be copied infinitely, and most nations on Earth use these copies to run important but boring tasks that are beyond lower-level AIs.

You should be ashamed of yourself, you have me hooked so bad, I am like a monkey with two bananas in my hands! He always points out the worst parts of any situation, except when things are at their worst and everyone can see what's wrong. There is a brief period in the book, when Bob is first sent out into the universe, where things are so abstract it was hard for me to visualize what was happening.As it progresses, I found fewer and fewer things to laugh at, but the problems and exploratory nature of the plot still engaging. A conflict on earth nearly destroys humanity in a nuclear war shortly after he departs earth, leaving Bob as not only the last hope to explore nearby space and expand human influence but as the last hope for the survival of the biological human race. Each new clone has a slightly different part of the original Bob's personality emphasized, and chooses a new name for himself. This way of immortality always leads me to the question of why people tend to believe that death has to be an integral part of society as if funerals were great fun and stinking corpses roses. While Bob only gets limited information from the scientists conducting the operation, it soon becomes clear that political tensions on Earth—both within FAITH and elsewhere—are reaching a boiling point, and Bob is fortunate to have his mind sent off into the cosmos just as disaster strikes and full-scale nuclear war erupts.