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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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Universe? It's so out there, man. It's time for a change. It's time for Bobiverse!
Bob 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 freezer (very 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 of Orwell's 1984 and every superpower in the world want to kill each other.
Oh, and Bob is dead. For reals this time. But his mind, personality, and memories have been used to create a self-replicating AI.
The AI's purpose?
*Cue Star trek theme*
Space: the final frontier. Its mission: To explore and find strange new habitable worlds before Humans kill each other, to boldly go where no man... uh, or AI has gone before.
Part one of the story revolves around Bob's "resurrection" and training for the mission to space. The story had my curiosity at this part, but I wasn't actually into the story.
And then came part two, and with that came Bobs. Half way into part two, I was completely hooked!
The mechanics of the story strangely reminded me of real-time strategy games like Age of empire and Starcraft. Just like the games, the story features: collecting resources, creating legions of Bobs and assigning them different roles, building tools and battalions, awesome upgrades, exploring space and ruthless showdowns between enemies... in space.. with missiles.
All of this while delivering spectacular plots of multiple nature at multiple ends pushing the reader to turn page after page after page.
To sum up, this is the grand odyssey of Bob, who started as a man and ended up as a space explorer, master strategist, scientist, farmer, war chief, politician and humanity's last hope.
Wait, I forgot something.
Ah, Bob is also a God. Literally.
Universe? It's so out there, man. It's time for a change. It's time for Bobiverse!
❝ As a species, we're morons.❞
Bob 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 freezer (very 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 of Orwell's 1984 and every superpower in the world want to kill each other.
Oh, and Bob is dead. For reals this time. But his mind, personality, and memories have been used to create a self-replicating AI.
The AI's purpose?
*Cue Star trek theme*
Space: the final frontier. Its mission: To explore and find strange new habitable worlds before Humans kill each other, to boldly go where no man... uh, or AI has gone before.
Part one of the story revolves around Bob's "resurrection" and training for the mission to space. The story had my curiosity at this part, but I wasn't actually into the story.
And then came part two, and with that came Bobs. Half way into part two, I was completely hooked!
The mechanics of the story strangely reminded me of real-time strategy games like Age of empire and Starcraft. Just like the games, the story features: collecting resources, creating legions of Bobs and assigning them different roles, building tools and battalions, awesome upgrades, exploring space and ruthless showdowns between enemies... in space.. with missiles.
All of this while delivering spectacular plots of multiple nature at multiple ends pushing the reader to turn page after page after page.
To sum up, this is the grand odyssey of Bob, who started as a man and ended up as a space explorer, master strategist, scientist, farmer, war chief, politician and humanity's last hope.
Wait, I forgot something.
Ah, Bob is also a God. Literally.
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Well, you made me instantly want to read it :D
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Evelina | AvalinahsBooks wrote: "Well, you made me instantly want to read it :D"Ah, Mission accomplished! Thank you, Evelina :)
I'm glad you liked it =). I'm still reading it and liking it so far!
Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "I'm glad you liked it =). I'm still reading it and liking it so far!"It was really good! Btw, the Audio book version is exceptional!
Unfortunately I don't do audio books since I can't get the real deal from the library and can't get the overdrive versions to work :-/.
Great review, Sreyas!And thanks for recommending!
I will must read it. (^_^)
Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Unfortunately I don't do audio books since I can't get the real deal from the library and can't get the overdrive versions to work :-/."Ouch... Well, Maybe in future then :)
Ahmed wrote: "Great review, Sreyas!And thanks for recommending!
I will must read it. (^_^)"
Thank you, Ejaz :) and I hope you enjoy this.
Great review- I really like your Starcraft observation- it's very apt!
Cool, I loved this too! I actually just finished book 3 last week, and you'll be happy to know the series ends as great as it begins!
Scott wrote: "Great review- I really like your Starcraft observation- it's very apt!"Thanks, Scott! I kept thinking about the game through out the book :p
Dan wrote: "Cool, I loved this too! I actually just finished book 3 last week, and you'll be happy to know the series ends as great as it begins!"Thanks, Dan :) I haven't read the last two books yet, but I'm really happy to know that the story finished strong!
