{"editions": [], "works": [{"title": "The Bobiverse", "covers": [10441976], "key": "/works/OL22116961W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "1-3"}], "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-09-13T20:14:36.078866"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-01T19:09:03.447744"}}, {"title": "Not Till We Are Lost", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL40592593W", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Science Fiction", "von Neumann probe", "Space Opera"], "subject_times": ["2309"], "subject_places": ["Delta Eridani"], "description": "The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There\u2019s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.\r\nBut it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy. Sure, it could settle the Fermi Paradox for good (and what Bob doesn\u2019t want to solve a mystery of the universe?). But it also reveals a threat to the galaxy greater than anything the Bobs could have imagined.\r\n\r\nJust another average day in the Bobiverse.", "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "5"}], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-09-25T19:14:51.480055"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-06T08:07:03.388200"}}, {"title": "Heaven\u2019s River", "covers": [10522898], "key": "/works/OL23705087W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "\u201cMore than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender\u2019s fate\u2014whatever the cost.\r\n\r\nBut nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob\u2019s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore. Some of them oppose Bob\u2019s plan; others have plans of their own. The out-of-control moots are the least of the Bobiverse\u2019s problems.\r\n\r\nUndaunted, Bob and his allies follow Bender\u2019s trail. But what they discover out in deep space is so unexpected and so complex that it could either save the universe\u2014or pose an existential threat the likes of which the Bobiverse has never faced.\u201d\u2014Goodreads\r\n\r\nBobiverse Series:\r\n1. [We Are Legion: (We Are Bob)](/works/OL19123425W)\r\n2. [For We Are Many](/works/OL19742648W)\r\n3. [All These Worlds](/works/OL19742647W)\r\n4. **[Heaven\u2019s River](/works/OL23705087W)**", "subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Colonization", "Extinction of the human race", "Fiction", "Planets", "Science Fiction", "Space flight", "Space warfare", "von Neumann probe"], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "\u201cWhat deities give you aren\u2019t rules of morality,\u201d Theresa responded. \u201cThey\u2019re just rules. Do this and you\u2019ll be rewarded. Do that and you\u2019ll be punished. That\u2019s how we teach our pets not to relieve themselves in the house. One would hope that true morality involved more than learning not to poop on the rug by being rapped on the nose.\u201d", "author": {"key": "/people/bitnapper"}}, {"excerpt": "\u201cI believe that it is only possible to acquire true morality without input from a deity. It is only when you do something because you believe it is the right thing to do, instead of because of any moral desserts, that you are acting morally. Likewise, it is only when you refuse to do something because of the Golden Rule, rather than because of a threat of punishment, that you are behaving in a moral manner.\u201d", "author": {"key": "/people/bitnapper"}}, {"excerpt": "\u201cThe Iron Rule: Treat others less powerful than you however you like. The Silver Rule: Treat others as you\u2019d like to be treated. The Golden Rule: Treat others as they\u2019d like to be treated.\u201d", "author": {"key": "/people/bitnapper"}}, {"excerpt": "[\u2026] the wonderful thing about knowledge is that you can give it away and still have it.", "author": {"key": "/people/bitnapper"}}], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "4"}], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-11-30T18:20:26.044368"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-06T08:06:31.697963"}}, {"subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Colonization", "Extinction of the human race", "Fiction", "Planets", "Science Fiction", "Space flight", "Space warfare", "von Neumann probe"], "description": "\u201cBeing a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper. Still stinging from getting their collective butts kicked in their first encounter with the Others, the Bobs now face the prospect of a decisive final battle to defend Earth and its colonies. But the Bobs are less disciplined than a herd of cats, and some of the younger copies are more concerned with their own local problems than defeating the Others. Yet salvation may come from an unlikely source. A couple of eighth-generation Bobs have found something out in deep space. All it will take to save the Earth and perhaps all of humanity is for them to get it to Sol - unless the Others arrive first.\u201d\u2014Goodreads.\r\n\r\nBobiverse Series:\r\n1. [We Are Legion: (We Are Bob)](/works/OL19123425W)\r\n2. [For We Are Many](/works/OL19742648W)\r\n3. **[All These Worlds](/works/OL19742647W)**\r\n4. [Heaven\u2019s River](/works/OL23705087W)", "key": "/works/OL19742647W", "title": "All These Worlds", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["Delta Eridani", "Las Vegas", "Earth", "Delata Eridiani", "Omicron Eridani", "P Eridiani", "Zeta Tucanae", "Epsilon Eridani", "HIP 84051", "GL 877", "Gamma Pavonis", "GL 54", "NN\u00a04285", "HIP 14101", "Eta Cassiopeia B", "P Eridani"], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "\u201cAh, the good old days,\u201d I replied. \u201cWhen things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.\u201d\r\n\u201cBarefoot.\u201d\r\n\u201cUphill.\u201d\r\n\u201cBoth ways.\u201d", "author": {"key": "/people/bitnapper"}}], "covers": [12750210], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "3"}], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-24T06:53:42.657213"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-06T08:06:05.441339"}}, {"subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Colonization", "Extinction of the human race", "Fiction", "Planets", "Science Fiction", "Space flight", "Space warfare", "von Neumann probe"], "description": "\u201cBob 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 the 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% 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.\u201d\u2014Publisher's description.\r\n\r\nBobiverse Series:\r\n1. [We Are Legion: (We Are Bob)](/works/OL19123425W)\r\n2. **[For We Are Many](/works/OL19742648W)**\r\n3. [All These Worlds](/works/OL19742647W)\r\n4. [Heaven\u2019s River](/works/OL23705087W)", "key": "/works/OL19742648W", "title": "For We Are Many", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["Delta Eridani", "Eta Cassiopeiae", "Zeta Tucanae", "Gliese 54", "New Zealand"], "subject_times": ["2167\u20132221"], "covers": [11329842], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "2"}], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-24T06:53:43.598081"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-06T08:05:37.742520"}}, {"subjects": ["Artificial intelligence", "Colonization", "Extinction of the human race", "Fiction", "Planets", "Science Fiction", "Space flight", "Space warfare", "von Neumann probe"], "key": "/works/OL19123425W", "title": "We Are Legion", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7473413A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8421582, 10524871, 11176594, 13130465, 8667782], "subtitle": "(We Are Bob)", "subject_places": ["Earth", "Saturn", "Epsilon Eridani", "Omicron Eridani", "82 Eridani", "Beta Hydri", "Delta Eridani", "Alpha Centauri", "Epsilon Indi", "Kappa Ceti", "Gamma Leporis A"], "subject_times": ["2016", "2133\u20132188"], "description": "\u201cBob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.\r\n\r\nBob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.\r\n\r\nThe safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.\u201d\u2014Goodreads\r\n\r\nBobiverse Series:\r\n1. **[We Are Legion: (We Are Bob)](/works/OL19123425W)**\r\n2. [For We Are Many](/works/OL19742648W)\r\n3. [All These Worlds](/works/OL19742647W)\r\n4. [Heaven\u2019s River](/works/OL23705087W)", "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL330701L"}, "position": "1"}], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-03-10T10:46:53.280628"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-06T08:04:26.926976"}}], "authors": []}