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| Original Title: | We Are Legion (We Are Bob) ASIN B01LWAESYQ |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Bobiverse #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Novel (2019) |
Dennis E. Taylor
Kindle Edition | Pages: 383 pages Rating: 4.29 | 48308 Users | 4101 Reviews
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| Title | : | We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) |
| Author | : | Dennis E. Taylor |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
| Published | : | September 20th 2016 by Worldbuilders Press |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Audiobook |
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Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.
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Ratings: 4.29 From 48308 Users | 4101 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1)
I like Bob. I've been swimming with him in Master's Swim Club for four or five years. He is always on time, always ready to work, and has the enviable ability--the result of decades as an accountant--of being able to keep track of yardage and time sets. He is also the only one who reliably plays The Pun Game with me, until I laugh so hard I can't swim. He is a genuinely nice guy, and always up for a (dark) beer after practice. But you have to be careful about sitting with him when you drinkSomewhere Poul Anderson is smiling.To say this is good science fiction is like saying Neil Peart is a drummer: technically true but far from wholly accurate.I cannot see where author Dennis E. Taylor pays specific tribute to Anderson as an influence, but he does say hes an avid SF reader and so I cannot imagine that he has NOT read the late Grandmaster and been persuaded by his writing. I recalled such Anderson gems as The Boat of a Million Years, Tau Zero, Maurai & Kith, and Harvest of
4.5 Stars Universe? It's so out there, man. It's time for a change. It's time for Bobiverse! ❝ As a species, we're morons.❞ Bob is dead. Yes, it is very tragic. But before his death, Bob had enrolled in a Cryonics program. So when Bob died, they decapitated him and stored his head in a freezer (very professionally), with the hope that he can be restored back to life in future with technological advancements. And they did, in the year 2133.The problem is, USA in 2133 is, in fact, a variation
I'm going with 3.5 stars on this one!I enjoyed it but I also caught myself fading off at times. I think all the thrillers are affecting my attention span!We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was outside of my typical genre. I enjoyed this and thought some of the humor in it was needed for all the technical information about Bob, A.I. and exploring new worlds.Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and while feeling on top of the world, he decides to sign up for Cryonics. When he dies, he's going
(Audiobook) What a pleasant surprise this book turned out to be!When I saw this audiobook I thought it might have been a self published "Church of the Subgenius" tribute SF(It's not). I clicked on it and the synopsis sounded interesting. When I searched for it on Goodreads it had a grand total of zero reviews. In the 2 weeks it took me to put it on my phone and get around to listening to it, several reviews have popped up, so it looks like the Bobiverse might be catching on somewhat. With a
4.5 stars. A fun romp of a SF space adventure. In 2016, Bob Johannsen sells his company for a fortune and promptly signs up for cryogenic preservation, and then manages to get himself killed just a day or two later. When he wakes up over 100 years later, he's without any physical body, essentially just a computer program ... but a very smart, self-aware one. And now he has the chance to be one of the first human intelligences to explore the galaxy.Because of the narrator Bob's sarcastic voice,
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