• BigBlackBuck@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 days ago

    Did you just read one of the Bobiverse books? I just searched this like 3 days ago because the Bobs were talking about it.

    • Plum@lemmy.worldOPM
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      7 days ago

      Not the Bobiverse. I don’t know that series yet. Do you recommend it?

      I had to check my history:

      Snowball Earth->Tonian->Boring Billion->Purple Earth Hypothesis

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Let me spoil the events of the first chapter or two of We Are Legion.

        Spoiler

        Guy gets rich making an app and selling it to Google (or whoever). On the way home, as a joke, he takes some of the money and signs up for a company that freezes your head after death. He is immediately hit by a car and dies.

        Fast forward 200 years: he wakes up!

        Turns out his consciousness is not in his brain at all. He’s in a computer. They stick him in a deep space probe and launch him into space. This is a special probe that can self-replicate at the atomic level. He can literally clone his (probe) body and consciousness.

        Then shenanigans happen.

        It’s a really good series.

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        4 days ago

        Definitely recommend the series, and the audio books narrated by Ray Porter are excellent as well.

        We are legion(We are Bob)
        For we are many
        All these worlds
        Heaven’s River
        Not till we are lost

        By: Dennis E Taylor

        Two of the Bobs were talking about a purple planet and said it was due to retinal so I had to look it up.

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        7 days ago

        The bobiverse is quite enjoyable if you’re looking for some light, good natured space fun. The story is pretty original.

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      6 days ago

      Excellent series. Waiting for the 5th to come out in print (its audio book only until later this year)