We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

By Dennis E. Taylor,

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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 findā€¦

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5 authors picked We Are Legion (We Are Bob) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This series is wildly popular, and I ran across it more than once. Finally, I had to read Book 1, even if the title does sound silly to me. But, as I discovered, it fits perfectly with humor and loads of sci-fi tropes. Read it for fun.

Bobā€™s head is cryo-preserved after his death, and he wakes up far in the future to discover heā€™s been downloaded (uploaded?) to a super-computer. Earth has become a seriously dystopian place, but the story doesn't linger on worries about ethics. His story is not a downer. Bob can turn his emotions on andā€¦

Donā€™t be fooled by the silly title; this book shows how I want to spend eternity. A guy has his consciousness uploaded to computers and then explores the universe. I want to see what is out there, but exploring such a vast space isnā€™t possible given the short time span of human life, so we need a technology like this.

This book is the first in a series where he meets aliens and serves as a god-like mentor for one relatable developing culture. He also interacts with different versions of himself as he copies his consciousness to better explore theā€¦

This is the first of a four-part series that had me hooked from the first chapter. It is a science fiction book that seems so absurd yet so tantalizingly possible.

Bob is humanityā€™s last hope, and somehow, Bob, an otherwise unremarkable fellow, manages to become the prototype sentience of the future of the human species.

I love space opera, and this is space opera on an enormous scale from an author with an enormous imagination. Itā€™s such an easy read that it works well as a palate cleanser between more intense non-fiction books.

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The Curiosity Cycle by Jonathan Mugan,

The Curiosity Cycle is a book for parents and educators who want to teach their children to be active explorers of the world. Learning through curiosity leads to adaptive thinking because your child is continually trying to improve his or her understanding of the world, and new facts and ideasā€¦

Guy strikes it rich, splurges on cryogenically freezing his head then gets killed crossing the street. This is a story I can get behind! Bob is now a sentient AIā€”no body or external senses. This is a problem until he comes up with an innovative solution. Not only is this a book full of sharp and wacky humor, thereā€™s a fantastic undercurrent of sci-fi thought experimentationā€”and this really resonated with me. What would it be like to be a sentient AI? Imagine replicating yourself and dealing with your ā€œother selves.ā€ There are highs and lows for Bob, andā€¦

Love to chuckle-snort while reading a good science fiction book? Then I highly recommend the Bobiverse series. While weā€™re all pretty familiar with sentient starships (i.e. Ancillary Justice and, of course, thereā€™s Farscape), how about a software geek turned corpsicle turned reluctant, self-replicating starship as part of future Earthā€™s desperate race to control the universe? I absolutely adored the humor-wrapped science fiction of this captivating novel.

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