We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

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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. New Read [ We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) ] Author [ Dennis E. Taylor ] – kino-fada.fr Fun, light hearted science fiction Same sarcastic tone as Old Man s War or The Martian It got a little bogged down with tedium in the second half.It s also not a complete book on its own, which is kind of annoying Very much seems like the first pa...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 titl 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 title like We are Legion We are Bob Bobiverse Book 1 Great title I was expecting a light, comedy Sci Fi We are Legion is actually something of a tweener It is mostly a very clever hard Science Fiction, with elements of a First Contact adventure and a nice seasoning of comedy Don t go in expecting the next Hitchhiker s guide and I promised you won t be disappointed.In the opening of the book our titular Bob is in Vegas for a Science convention Bob is a nerd who l...I loved Bob, er, the Bob s I can tell you right now, if I would have woken up like Bob did I would have freaked and they would have pulled the plug I loved the journey through space and all that happened, well mostly Longer review laterI m jumping on the Bobwagon here I love the light tone throughout and the geek humor mostly relegated to names one AI clone gives to oneself when faced with a profundity of oneself Riker Number 2 Of course But the rest is just a fantastic ride of popular references and snark, right, Admiral Akbar Seriously, that was just one of the coolest things in the novel but the next runner up has got to be the effortless way we start colonizing the galaxy with each replicant, going back to Earth, ex I m jumping on the Bobwagon here I love the light tone throughout and the geek humor mostly relegated to names one AI clone gives to oneself when faced with a profundity of oneself Riker Number 2 Of course But the rest is just a fantastic ride of popular references and snark, right, Admiral Akbar Seriously, that was just one...If you liked the genius inventive loner engineer of The Martian and you also liked the amazing universe building and rambling episodic nature of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet then you re probably going to love this book.Bob is a newly minted tech millionaire Bob has also just signed up to be cryogenically frozen in the event of his death Which is a really good thing because his death is in 3 2 uh oh.Bob is an AI replicant based on a brain scan of frozen tech millionaire Bob If you liked the genius inventive loner engineer of The Martian and you also liked the amazing universe building and rambling episodic nature of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet then you re probably going to love this book.Bob is a newly minted tech millionaire Bob has also just signed up to be cryogenically frozen in the event of his death Which is a really good thing because his death is in 3 2 uh oh.Bob is an AI replicant based on a brain scan of frozen tech millionaire Bob s brain Bob s also a pop culture junky, incredibly brilliant and other than the loss of everything and everyone he knows, pretty happy to be an AI and evenhappy to find out that he s going to be the piloting AI of a self replicating interstellar von Neumann probe.But after his launch the responsibility on his head s is immense He has to find colony worlds for humanity, deal with armed crazy rivals, deal with potential alien life and maybe save humanity itself.This was great Th...I think I would have never found this book on my own and my life would have been the poorer for it Seriously, this author is so delightfully geeky nerdy yes, both that it s already enough to carry the reader from start to finish But easter eggs or satirical references are not the only thing Dennis Taylor is good at.The story is about a young millionaire who invests into cryogenetics a project freezing your head after your death so you can be revived and given a new enhanced body by sci I think I would have never found this book on my own and my life would have been the poorer for it Seriously, this author is so delightfully geeky nerdy yes, both that it s already enough to carry the reader from start to finish But easter eggs or satir...2.5ish stars A fun and funny but unspectacular space opera elevated by a clever narrating voice s and unique set up.It could just be that I m burned out on space opera right now but I just didn t enjoy this as much as I was hoping to I expected it to be hysterically comical, but even with the geeky pop culture allusions and the endless wit of the great and powerful bobs...So much geeky fun In addition to all the seemingly effortless tie ins to all that is nerdy, Dennis Taylor s We Are Legion has a solid story both about humanity colonizing the stars and the nature of humanity itself This was an easy and fast paced read You may have already read Ki...3.5 stars.Have you ever wished you could undertake true space exploration but realistically believed that your lifespan may not be long enough to survive the journey Well, not if you are Bob Robert Johansson,affectionately known as Bob, was an engineer in the 21st century who signed up for having his head cryogenically preserved upon his death for future resuscitation into a new body In a strange ironic twist of fate, Bob died within 24 hours of doing so and woke up a bitthan a ce 3.5 stars.Have you ever wished you could undertake true space exploration but realistically be...4.5 Stars UniverseIt s so out there, man It s time for a change It s time for BobiverseAs a species, we re moronsBob 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 freezervery 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 4...

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
  • English
  • 16 January 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 304 pages
  • Dennis E. Taylor
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)