![]() ![]() His job is to travel to other star systems, build infrastructure there, use that to make copies of himself and in doing so explore the galaxy.īeing an actual person, Bob has a few problems with this. A hundred years later, he wakes up to discover that he has been turned into the AI of a Von Neumann space probe. Bob Johansson is a wealthy man who uses the wealth he got selling his software company to have his head frozen. In case you have read none of the Bobiverse books, I’ll give you a simple overview while avoiding spoiling more than I have to. Heaven’s River is in some ways less funny than the others because things that made me laugh in the first book have just become the way it is done, and that is fine because it's a well written book with humor that adds to the book rather than being the point. The Bobiverse books are funny, but that isn’t their primary point, and that choice elevates both the books and the humor. ![]() I assumed from the name of the first book, “We Are Legion ” that it was primarily a comedy, and while my favorite science fiction book is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” I’ve read very few other books in any genre that work as comedy and most of the time science fiction comedy is worse than others. ![]() I had heard from many people it was entertaining and smart science fiction, but it was an author I didn’t know and sometimes I fall in the trap of wanting the familiar. I took far longer to enter the Bobiverse than I should have. ![]()
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