We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse)
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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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Bob Johansson is your typical tech bro - a computer wiz who speaks in classic sci-fi references and just sold his startup for millions and is looking forward to a life of leisure from now on. He also just signed his afterlife away to a cryogenics company. Just in time, it turns out. He’s killed in a car accident later that day.
When next he wakes up, he finds that over a century has passed, the world has changed drastically, and he’s a computer program. The AI set to control a self-replicating interstellar probe in humanity’s newest space race.
There is no one singular plot, but several branching ones after Bob creates his first copy of himself. Despite being AI clones of each other, the many Bobs - who give themselves new names - all have surprisingly different personalities. More like siblings than perfect copies. And as they go off on independent adventures those personalities become more disparate.
Personally, I found that even though the story jumped back and forth between storylines to keep the action going, it still began to drag after a while and became rather predictable. The planets and lifeforms that the Bobs discover aren’t particularly imaginative or unique, and most of the tension and action comes from typical earth politics and wars.
With a collective of immortal sentient AIs and a whole universe to discover, I just wish it had pushed the envelope more.
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