10-10-2018, 09:18 PM
This is one of the better “space opera” book series I’ve read in a while. I’ve finished Book 1 “We are Legion (We are Bob)" and Book 2, “For We Are Many", and only my next flight, I’ll begin the 3rd book in the "Bobiverse" trilogy, “All the Worlds.”
Bob starts out the series as a Comicon-attending geek who has just sold his software company for a serious chunk of change and invests a portion of the money in having his head cryogenically preserved, just in case they come up with a way to re-use his brain and somehow let him continue living after he dies. And since there are three books, obviously they figure it out. Everything that was Bob is preserved as data and he is transformed into a sentient spaceship that, via the art of 3-D printing and the ability to inhabit and operate mechanical probes, can replicate pretty much anything, given sufficient time and resources, including himself. The books tell the stories of how Bob and his "clones" manage to survive (and in some cases thrive) in a dangerous universe. It explores the idea of what a consciousness consists, and the affect of nature vs. nurture on subsequent incarnations of restored backups of the same consciousness.
Bob starts out the series as a Comicon-attending geek who has just sold his software company for a serious chunk of change and invests a portion of the money in having his head cryogenically preserved, just in case they come up with a way to re-use his brain and somehow let him continue living after he dies. And since there are three books, obviously they figure it out. Everything that was Bob is preserved as data and he is transformed into a sentient spaceship that, via the art of 3-D printing and the ability to inhabit and operate mechanical probes, can replicate pretty much anything, given sufficient time and resources, including himself. The books tell the stories of how Bob and his "clones" manage to survive (and in some cases thrive) in a dangerous universe. It explores the idea of what a consciousness consists, and the affect of nature vs. nurture on subsequent incarnations of restored backups of the same consciousness.
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