"For We Are Many" in the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor continues the story of Bob Johansson, a replicant AI exploring space, managing other species, and dealing with the challenges of human nature. The narrative follows the Bobs as they spread across the galaxy, seeking human-friendly planets, interacting with new species, and facing dangers such as alien races and evolving technology. is described as a mix of humor, serious technical science fiction, and richly detailed exploration of themes like transhumanism, interstellar travel, terraforming, and first contact.
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Has Romance?
There is a medium level of romance present in the story, particularly as some Bobs develop feelings towards humans.
From The Publisher:
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.
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4 comment(s)
Still a great story, mostly made me more excited for the last book.
Book two was just as much fun as the start of this series, with substantial expansion on each Bob clone's varying missions and connections in the universe(s). It was remarkable how well I kept the plotlines for each character separate in my mind, so major kudos for creating characters that, although clones of each other, achieve a remarkable level of individuality.
I'm not sure if I'll continue the series, but I'll definitely keep these books in mind if I ever need to scratch the sci-fi itch.
4.5/5 I enjoyed this one even more than the first book. Really impressed with how the author manages to give all the Bobs their own personalities and storylines while also advancing the primary story. I’m glad to see that the story doesn’t seem to be going where I expected it to go, and I’m excited to see how it all wraps up.
The Bobs are so reactionary. This book is lacking focus in its plot, something not helped by a large amount of narrators and plotlines.
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For We Are Many?
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