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Review of “All these Worlds (Bobiverse: Book 3) by Dennis E. Taylor

It is rare for the third book in a trilogy to be the best. Usually, I would think the writer is looking to make a few more euros. But not this time. It’s the best I’ve read since the first book in the Children of Times series.

You would need to read the first two books first, or you will be totally lost.

The Bobs are replicants who have now been copied many, many times. Each iteration is slightly different, and the varied experiences they each have, make them even more different. One Bob spends seventy years with a primitive, sentient species, who are in danger of extinction, and guides them as a quasi-sky God to a safer location. Another gets invested in the people on a colony world, and has deeper friendships than when he was flesh and blood.

There are many interwoven stories of love, friendship, and exploration. It makes you consider that immortality as a machine may not be all that bad. Of course, it’s not all plain sailing. “The Others” must be contended with, along with a pesky attempted coup on one of the human colony worlds.

What does it mean to be human?

What does it mean to be conscious?

Great science fiction makes you ask yourself difficult questions. And this is why this is so good.

There are some great action scenes too, especially with “The Others”. It invites you to imagine epic space battles where the very future of humanity is in danger.

Read this series. I can say no more, and naturally it gets five stars out of five,

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For We Are Many (Bobiverse) by Denis E Taylor

Hello dear readers, I have just finished reading the second book in the Bobiverse series by Denis E Taylor. For those that may have forgotten, I gave the first one five stars out of five (We are Legion We are Bob). The sequel is not always on a par with the original though.

Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so he signed up to be resurrected after he had died. Little did he realize that it would be as an Artificial Intelligence or replicant, and that life would far outlive his biological one. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets trying to save the last remnants of humanity after a disastrous nuclear war. Something that’s increasingly feeling like a real prospect these days.

Each Bob copy has its own variability in character due both to the copying process and their own unique experiences once they separate. The relationships between the Bobs themselves is one of the things that makes this novel so special.

What follows is an intriguing tale of exploration, love and friendship over space and time.

Amongst the various sub stories, one Bob becomes a Sky God to a primitive species doing everything possible to ensure its survival.

Another Bob fall in love with a woman he can never touch.

“The Others” are the adversary in the book, who are stripping the surrounding star systems of life and material to create their own Dyson Sphere. Who finally wins is left to the next novel and I for one, can’t wait.

This gets another five stars out of five from me.