Bob Johansson was a computer programmer looking to live the rest of his life enjoying it, when he was struck by a car and killed. Okay, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself here. The Bobiverse is a series of science fiction novels that follows one, well actually many, Bob Johanssons as they traverse the local star systems around the Sol system as Von Neumann probes.

Anyway, with its fourth book being released in physical form later this month (already out on audible), I decided I should unnecessarily and aggressively dig into why I don’t like The Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor. You can blame the rest of the QTL staff on allowing me this indulgence. Oh, that’s just me? Well that’s okay, at least you might get some entertainment and insight into some works you may have considered reading while you watch me hurt myself. There is that quick hit of rage dopamine you get whenever the thing you hate does something you don’t like, and you can’t help but burn out those receptors and permanently ruin your brain chemistry. I imagine everyone does it on some small level. Heaven's River is the fourth installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies.If you’re not familiar with me, you’ll first need to understand that I have a bad habit of reading things I hate, and reading too much into those things that I hate. But what they discover out in deep space is so unexpected and so complex that it could either save the universe - or pose an existential threat the likes of which the Bobiverse has ever faced. Undaunted, Bob and his allies follow Bender's trail. The out-of-control moots are the least of the Bobiverse's problems.

Some of them oppose Bob's plan others have plans of their own. Bob's descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender's fate - whatever the cost.īut nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates.

More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E.

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