For We Are Many

Bobiverse, Book 2

By: Dennis E. Taylor

Narrated by: Ray Porter

The highly anticipated sequel to Audible's Best of 2016 - Science Fiction winner, We Are Legion (We Are Bob); a book listeners are calling "so much fun", "what science fiction was meant to be", and what would happen if "Andy Weir and Ernest Cline had a lovechild".

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe.

Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9 percent of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth uninhabitable; a radical group wants to finish the job on the remnants of humanity; the Brazilian space probes are still out there, still trying to blow up the competition; and the Bobs have discovered a spacefaring species that sees all other life as food.

Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he's become a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every living thing in the local sphere from ending up as dinner.

Listener favorite Ray Porter returns to narrate Bob - and his many incarnations - in all of their geeky glory.

For We Are Many is the second installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies.

©2017 Dennis E. Taylor (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Middle book syndrome

This book feels a lot like back to the future two. If moves the overall plot along but if you didn't start with book one you would be missing a lot.

Great book!, bad audio quality! hissssss

I loved the book, and story was awesome, this is great sci-fi!. But one thing that gave me cringes throughout the book was the audio. It just felt low quality compare to the previous book. There is a lot of hissing when the narrator talks. Hopefully we can get a revise audio book.

This book was too short!

What did you like best about this story?

Love the Bobiverse! I enjoy the slight differences of each iteration of Bob and seeing how each of them makes their own mark on the universe. Despite being an artificial intelligence, I still feel a connection with the Bob characters and often feel like they react in ways similar to how I would. (They are also just as geeky) The struggle of being an AI and essentially an immortal is also an interesting theme as well as his struggle with duty to the human race and other life throughout the universe.

What does Ray Porter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Ray Porter does a good job with different voices for each character. There are even some subtle differences between Bobs despite them being almost identical copies.

Any additional comments?

I can't wait for book three!

As good as the first

I was worried that Taylor wasn't going to capture the magic that he did with the first book in this series. He absolutely did. I couldn't pause the book, I had to sit through it all in one go. Everything you like about the first book continues as the plot thickens and we see what other threats the galaxy has to offer.

Excellent performance as well. Porter brings all the Bobs' personalities to life.

second in the series, can't wait for number 3!!!

second in the series, can't wait for number 3!!! I just wish they were longer, or more were available right now.