For We Are Many
Bobiverse, Book 2
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Ray Porter
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Dennis E. Taylor
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The highly anticipated sequel to Audible's Best of 2016 - Science Fiction winner, We Are Legion (We Are Bob); a book listeners are calling "so much fun", "what science fiction was meant to be", and what would happen if "Andy Weir and Ernest Cline had a lovechild".
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 percent 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.
Listener favorite Ray Porter returns to narrate Bob - and his many incarnations - in all of their geeky glory.
For We Are Many is the second installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies.
©2017 Dennis E. Taylor (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
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Great story with great intrigue
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The conflicts sum up to flinging either a probe or a missile at the opponent. The plot manages to be contrived without being complex.
There is no political considerations of interplanetary colonisation beyond "humanity need to be saved from itself by a benevolent entity". As for the philosophical/ideological ramifications of mind uploading, first-contact, Terraformation, or any of the myriad of themes this book touched upon.. calling them surface level would be euphemism.
There is not much either to expect from the technological devices, since the author only appears to be aware of the existence of physical laws when it is convenient for the story. Besides there is a distinct American bent on exceptionalism in the way technological progress is envisioned.
The characters are strictly one dimensional and quickly fade into irrelevance after having contributed their part to the score, but I guess it should hardly be a surprise since a good portion of the book reads as a nerdy fantasy of vicarious revenge against one's bullies.
And all the geek references seem so gratuitous that they become grating. Instead of earning the reader's complicity it rather feels as though the characters are begging for it.
If it were not such a popular book, I would have considered it a parody of what a teenager raised on star-trek episodes might come up with.
There are many better sci fi books
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