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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.
Read For We Are Many Bobiverse Book 2 Audible Audio Edition Dennis E Taylor Ray Porter Audible Studios Books
"The first book in the Bobiverse was cute and spoke to the inner geek in many of us that wanted to explore, defend, and create. It was exciting, fresh, and extremely upbeat.
This book explores the musty attic of the Bobiverse.
There is more drama, and the tone is decidedly **darker**.
Nothing is really resolved in this book either. Even the things that you initially think will be resolved end up being uncertain at best.
That said, Dennis Taylor is a good writer, and the narrator is exceptional.
I recommend this book if you *loved* the first book and want to see where Taylor takes the Bobiverse. If you felt the first book was "meh" then you will want to take a pass on this one. If you are new to the Bobiverse then I recommend that you read/listen to the first book before making any decisions about this one.
** Beware Spoilers Follow **
This book explores the neurosis of the Bobs. One Bob falls in love with a human woman. One Bob eventually commits suicide. One Bob plays God and becomes morose when rejected by the species he hopes to elevate. Some of the Bobs become sociopaths and refer to humans (and all biological life forms) as "empherials."
You get the dark side of things. Clearly some of the Bobs want to experience life as a living, breathing, sensing creature again, and a lot is made of the android project.
We meet the evil replicants from Brazil again, and the reader thinks that the Bobs have wiped out this threat when it is revealed that they will be "the 'Snidley Whiplash' twirling their mustache in every episode."
The book further explores the Others. We first met their mega-ant-robots in the first book,but by the end of this book the Bobs have so annoyed the Others that they announce their intention to destroy Earth and the Bobs' primary colony stars. Quite frankly, the Others seem like a monolithic threat that the Bobs cannot possibly beat by the end of this book. There are some weaknesses though. The species has confined itself to one star system, and there is one central Queen without competitors. If the Bobs can devise a way to destroy the central hive then all will be well except for the annoying Brazilian shadow threat.
All in all, I will read/listen to Book 3, but I was somewhat disappointed by this outing in the Bobiverse."
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For We Are Many Bobiverse Book 2 Audible Audio Edition Dennis E Taylor Ray Porter Audible Studios Books Reviews
- A good first novel is refreshing, but the second is always a test of whether a writer is good or just lucky. "We Are Many" show that Taylor's Bobiverse is not a fluke, and that he is a writer able to capture the audiences attention. The plot elements are often a little hard to keep track of as the Bobiverse fragments and expands, but the stories are compelling, unique and have legs. I look forward to more, whether in the Bobiverse or elsewhere.
- I honestly just wish it was longer.
I found no problems with this book and can't dock it a star just because I want more.
I recommend this book to those that love good sci-fi. - Bravo sir. This is a brilliant second book that left me looking at everything else in my reading queue and going "meh". It took me a couple of days to get around to actually picking up something else as I knew there was nothing else pending that would be remotely as good.
As I just noted in my review of the first installment, the author has done an amazing job of crafting a story where the reader cares more about the Von Neumann machines than the people. While the people are an essential plot element they are very much secondary and far less interesting in spite of their being adequate fodder there for several conventional, and far less interesting, books.
The evolution of the "Bobs" continues to be fascinating and the "Others" provides a necessary plot device for encouraging further growth in that community as the book progresses.
I'm very much looking forward to the next installment. - Loved it! Listened to it on audio and cannot recommend it highly enough. Audio is the way to go with this series. Ray Porter narrates it perfectly. He captures the essence of each and every "Bob" and delivers the humor in a perfect manner. The story is fun, funny, exciting and at times, even touching. I love all of the "Bobs" senses of humor. This is not a book to read as a standalone. You definitely need to read book 1 first, but that's not a hardship as that one is fantastic too.
If you like your sci-fi with humor, I highly recommend this series. And I recommend it even more on audio. You can buy the kindle book and the audible version for less than $10 I think. That's a steal! - The first book in the Bobiverse was cute and spoke to the inner geek in many of us that wanted to explore, defend, and create. It was exciting, fresh, and extremely upbeat.
This book explores the musty attic of the Bobiverse.
There is more drama, and the tone is decidedly **darker**.
Nothing is really resolved in this book either. Even the things that you initially think will be resolved end up being uncertain at best.
That said, Dennis Taylor is a good writer, and the narrator is exceptional.
I recommend this book if you *loved* the first book and want to see where Taylor takes the Bobiverse. If you felt the first book was "meh" then you will want to take a pass on this one. If you are new to the Bobiverse then I recommend that you read/listen to the first book before making any decisions about this one.
** Beware Spoilers Follow **
This book explores the neurosis of the Bobs. One Bob falls in love with a human woman. One Bob eventually commits suicide. One Bob plays God and becomes morose when rejected by the species he hopes to elevate. Some of the Bobs become sociopaths and refer to humans (and all biological life forms) as "empherials."
You get the dark side of things. Clearly some of the Bobs want to experience life as a living, breathing, sensing creature again, and a lot is made of the android project.
We meet the evil replicants from Brazil again, and the reader thinks that the Bobs have wiped out this threat when it is revealed that they will be "the 'Snidley Whiplash' twirling their mustache in every episode."
The book further explores the Others. We first met their mega-ant-robots in the first book,but by the end of this book the Bobs have so annoyed the Others that they announce their intention to destroy Earth and the Bobs' primary colony stars. Quite frankly, the Others seem like a monolithic threat that the Bobs cannot possibly beat by the end of this book. There are some weaknesses though. The species has confined itself to one star system, and there is one central Queen without competitors. If the Bobs can devise a way to destroy the central hive then all will be well except for the annoying Brazilian shadow threat.
All in all, I will read/listen to Book 3, but I was somewhat disappointed by this outing in the Bobiverse. - I really enjoy the book, the story is interesting, it is nice to have the story written from the perspective of an introvert. The only negatives I had had to do with the fact women are practically invisible, present only as minor characters in the form of love interests. All the important characters (even excluding Bob) are male. Also it would be interesting to have others participate in the decision making as the only decision making happens in the bobeverse. Finally the ecologically unsound decisions of eliminating fauna based on how much you like them or not, is rather jarring and aliens being 'evil' because they don't subscribe to our morality is also a bit odd. All that said, I enjoy the series and have already bought the next one.
- Second book of a three book space opera trilogy. I read the POD (print on demand) trade paperback version which has nice paper and fonts. The author is promising the third book in the series late this year. I will purchase and read it.
The Von Nuemann space ship probes captained by the Bob AI have multiplied into 40+ and have now explored over 100 star systems. Things have gone both good and bad. And the "Others" now know about the Bob probes and Earth due to their capture of the Chinese Von Neumann probe.
The evacuation of Earth due to the fast moving ice age is not going well. The fifteen million survivors on Earth are slowly starving to death as the crops have now totally failed and all of the food is coming from orbital farms.
