We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Cafe Society
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Just finished this (audio)book today. Sci-Fi fans, check it out! Looks like the Kindle edition clocks in at 304 pages, so not a super long read, but it was highly enjoyable. It is the first book in the “Bobiverse”, with book 2 coming next month (April 17th).

Plot setup (from goodreads):

[SPOILER]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.[/SPOILER]

I can’t recommend it enough. Of course, my taste in… well, anything really… could be suspect. For those that do audiobooks, I thought the performance was well done, and it only runs about 9 hours.

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I’m not familiar with this book, but from the description I really enjoyed it when it was published as World out of Time in 1976.

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Reading the synopsis of World Out of Time, it sounds like they definitely start in similar places, but that would seem to be it. I’ll have to check it out, though! I loved Ringworld, and to date that is the only Niven book I’ve got under my belt. I was always more on the fantasy side than science fiction, aside from Asimov. I’m trying to get more good sci-fi in though!

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There aren’t geek Easter eggs in this book. The geekery is front and center.

I have book two on my audible wish list.

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That was my impression as well- they certainly start out the same way. WOoT is one of my favorite books. They diverge greatly, though.

Funnily enough, the author’s other book, Outlands starts out almost exactly like Steven Gould’s *Wildside *(and actually, one of the characters makes a few references to that book). Like Legion, though, it diverges pretty quickly.