We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Brossura, 382 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 20 Ottobre 2016 da Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.

ISBN:: 978-1-68068-032-4

(1 recensione)

Bob 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.

Bob 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.

The safest place …

Bob 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.

Bob 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.

The 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.

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This one reminded me of Andy Weir's novels. Heavy on the engineering stuff, full of nerdy references, lots of humor. And still somehow it fell short. The base idea is rather good: a software engineer has his head frozen after his death, in hope to be revived somewhere in the future. Which happens, more or less. His mind gets uploaded in a self-replicating probe sent to explore space. Not bad. Unfortunately execution is average. Taylor is not as good as Weir when it comes to keeping attention high when talking about tech stuff. And his humor didn't really work for me. Finally, the story does not conclude with this novel, not even a little sense of closure. You don't do that, even if you had an entire saga in your mind since the beginning.