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.

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Listening Length	8 hours and 59 minutes
Author	Dennis E. Taylor
Narrator	Ray Porter
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	18 April 2017
Publisher	Audible Originals
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01N298VL9
Best Sellers Rank	615 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 9 in Hard Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 14 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) 20 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Sammi J

great read

Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2019

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I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and will be starting on book three today. The description of the different planets and their ecosystems etc has been very well thought thru. Earth has been all but destroyed by humans own inability to get along and some of the same bad attitude is taken off world. Dividing humans onto different planets to same humanity. then the others come along. insect like creatures that just destroy. interesting to think that a one time human who is the conscience of AI has more humanity than the world he was born into, as original Bob and the army of replicants take on the role of protector not just of humans but other sentient species. this is a fun read as we are taken on quite a journey thru space and meet new bobs on the way, each with his own personality and perspective and they all get along and support each other

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Steven Adams

Great Read

Reviewed in Australia on 10 May 2017

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A solid follow from the first book and I'm looking forward to more.

Follows the various threads that the Bobiverse presents as queries and opens up the next stage of questions about how the Bobs will evolve over time.

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Great second book

Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2017

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This is a great folloup of the first. I love the characters and look forward to where they go next.

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Philip Rhoades

Excellent! Fantastic!

Reviewed in Australia on 25 May 2017

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Bobiverse without The Others is where I am trying to get to . . now if I can just sort out some of the details . .

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Just really good

Reviewed in Australia on 28 January 2021

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See the title of this comment. Also great character? Characters? Just great overall. If you're a scifi nut. You'd love this

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Celm

Bobverse

Reviewed in Australia on 15 January 2019

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Great read with some interesting ideas.

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For We Are Many will be one of the Best of 2017 and is a must read! Easily an equal of the First - Taylor is Outstanding!

Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2017

We Are Legion was ground breaking and one of the best books of 2016, its mix of humour, sci-fi pop-culture references, as well as incredibly well researched technological references as ‘Bob’ is turned into a Von Neumann probe and cast out into the universe. The original story saw the original Bob create several new versions of himself in an attempt to create a network of probes to spread out into the galaxy, find new habitable planets, and meet the mission goals that had been laid out before him.
It was something that was truly epic and original and so exceptionally well written, you couldn’t put it down.
For We Are Many I am happy to say is just as good. It continues in the same manner, with the same mix of humour, references to a multitude of sci-fi shows and a list of incredible characters.
Taylor has done a brilliant job of creating his Bob characters, although they are cast from the same template, with the same personality type, they all take on slightly different aspects of the Bob personality, allowing for a vast array of characters within the same character Archetype. It is so incredibly clever and creative and just adds such a fascinating depth to the story. All the major characters from the first are there Bob1 – who is now kind of revered, as there are 8th generation Bobs as we move along, Bill, Riker, Howard, Homer, Mario, Marvin, Ralph, Charles and so many others…
It goes from around 20+ to 40+ in this book.
I won’t give away any spoilers, you need to read this for yourself.
This is a truly exceptional piece of writing, Taylor takes us on many different journeys in this book, with Bob1, there is the continued story of the Deltans, and he really explores the emotional aspects of this relationship that Bob has as he tries to take this primitive species to the next step of evolution. With Riker, Homer, Charles and several of the other Bobs, we see the continued fight for the survival of humanity, and there is the technological aspects of this fight, and again the emotional and psychological strain this places on the Bobs as they struggle to resolve this dilemma for their former species.
We also see a personal attachment form for one of the Bobs, which was utterly fascinating, given their circumstances, and we are reminded that they are actually not just a machine, but a true personality trapped inside a computer construct.
One of the really fun aspects of this book (and it highlights the number of Bobs that now exist), is that there are now Bob Moots, were they gather in a collective VR to discuss issues. These gatherings are a really fascinating insight into the Bob personality, as most of his personality aspects are represented by the Bobs present and therefore at the Moot.
Taylor has also been incredibly clever, and given this story a new challenge in the introduction of the Others, an alien race that arrives at a planetary system and consumes the entire system, stripping any metal and animal life from every planet/asteroid in the system. The animal (or sentient life) is used as food and the metal is used to progress their goals.
The Planets that the Bobs have set up Colonies on, Earth, and Bob1’s Deltan’s are all under threat.
Taylor has done a remarkable amount of research as well to provide a story that is technologically fascinating and even though this is already a brilliant story, the addition of the technological aspect just gives it so much more depth and credibility.
This series could conceivably continue on endlessly, as the Bobs move out into the Universe, discover new planets, new species, re-colonise humanity, as they create a physical manifestation for themselves. There are so many stories to tell, and the thing is, that it is just told so brilliantly, that you just want more. This is a series that is begging for addition to the Kindle World series – although given
It is probably the only downside to this story, there isn't enough, it could have been twice as long, and you would still want more, so hardly a downside.
This will be another of the best books of 2017, and is a must read!

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Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2017

This is marvellous series and I thoroughly enjoyed this instalment. The author continues to develop the various scenarios. It is not just a traditional space opera , it is an attempt to examine the repercussions and possible developments of an uploaded personality. I am thoroughly looking forward to the next book.

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A great follow on from the first book in this series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2017

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For We Are Many is the second book in Taylor’s ‘Bobiverse’ series and follows the various Bobs as they expand further into the stellar neighbourhood, assist the human colonies or study the emerging Deltan aliens. But not everything out there is friendly; there’s the Madeiros clones and now some others…

Taylor’s writing and the book’s editing are once again both refreshingly professional for a new author just getting going; For We Are Many is just as enjoyable to read as We are Legion, both in content and execution. The humour is still there, though many of the humorous references are a little more obscure this time around. A little love interest is introduced and handled sympathetically without going overboard and the moral issues involved in ‘interfering’ with developing alien intelligences are handled in plausibly practical and honest fashions.

I do have a nagging problem with some of the book’s structure that could possibly develop into something a little more serious in the third book. Particularly in the second half of this book many of the chapters were exceptionally short; sometimes barely more than a page or two and at times I started to feel almost dizzy as we dive in for a couple of paragraphs with one Bob doing one thing then it’s off to another Bob engaged in something else, often completely unrelated (I’ll come back to that point later), and again only for a page or two before it’s off again to another. Whilst it’s always clear from the chapter titles which Bob we are listening to, so it’s not really a head hopping issue, the frequency that Taylor switches the point of view is sometimes rather disorientating especially when there are so many threads to skip around. And maybe that’s the problem, maybe Taylor is in danger of trying to juggle too many different threads at once. This wasn’t a show stopper for me and I generally had little trouble keeping track, it’s just that it almost felt like one of those movies that split the screen into quarters with different stuff happening in each, sometimes it was just a little too much for comfort.

There is another issue associated with this structure; I get the feeling that I’m reading several separate, though linked, stories simultaneously. Now I may be wrong in this, and I hope I am, but several of the multiple threads in this book actually seem to have little or nothing to do with each other apart from the presence of the Bobs. I am left wondering whether the various threads will all come together into a unified conclusion. I have no problem reading a book with multiple threads but if those threads never interact or influence each other then the story can start to feel fragmented. Again this was not a show stopper; I have enjoyed following all the different stories but I will be disappointed if some of them remain totally self-contained with little or no impact on the main storyline. This may be an unfair criticism and I shall wait to see what the third volume brings. It didn’t spoil my read but did leave me a little worried.

Altogether another great read and one that Taylor finished off much more cleanly as compared with the previous book. A number of conclusions were reached whilst plenty remains for the next volume to address; this time it felt like the right point to end the book. A fun, engaging story well told.

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Bob expands nicely

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2017

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A great tale and, at the end of book 1, I had to know what was happening next so I bought this immediately. The author has expanded on his theme nicely. He's also explored some of the issues of being immortal, evacuating 15 million people across the stars, cloning yourself and the pitfalls of protecting a vulnerable alien culture, there's plenty of action too though.. Just as in real life, it's all going swimmingly when someone turns up to ruin your whole day. The bad aliens are very bad indeed and must be stopped, but how? There are some hints as to possible solutions and all the alien eggs are in one basket. This can go in all sorts of directions but I'm hoping it's going to be truly epic in its scope , certainly Mr. taylor knows how to keep us wantng more, thi sis good stuff.

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Maggie

And the saga continues

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2019

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Bobs abound and his (their) life as electronic entities carries on. The race to get the surviving human populace resettled after the planet was devastated by a nuclear war continues and in the meantime The Others threaten the existence of all. After the rescue of a race and a defeated battle force, the Bobs are desperate to try and find a way forward. In the meantime the Bobs continue to improve their android project and visit some friends. I’m off to read the third book now, can’t wait to see what happens next. Loving this series.

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A rare series where the sequel is as good as the original.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2020

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I LOVE a good series, but even some of my favourites have noticeable quality differences between the first and second. Even if the quality remains high the stories can feel disjointed. Not this one. It might help I've read them one after the other, with no wait, but the book holds up beautifully to the first in every way, which I mean as a huge compliment. I flitted between kindle and audible but where I usually prefer reading, the narrator was INCREDIBLE and made my commutes extra enjoyable by being able to switch so seamlessly between . Can't wait to start the third book.... Right now.

t33ch

More Bobbing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2017

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Much of what I said in my Bobiverse book 1 review still stands for this book.
There aren't a lot of new threads introduced but the development of existing threads is sufficient to keep the reader turning pages.
I don't find this series really comes up with anything new but all the threads are well written and intertrwined and the author does seem to have woven in at least one over-arching plotline regarding the ongoing changes in the various generations of Bob's world views.

Regardless of what I say in my reviews, I'm crashing through the books in a few hours so there must be something good in there.

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