All These Worlds

by Dennis E. Taylor

280 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2017 by Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.

ISBN:: 978-1-68068-060-7
OCLC Number:: 1003151676

(115 reviews)

"Being 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. …

3 editions

Sean Gursky reviewed All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #3)

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4 stars

You wouldn't think anything of someone with a prosthetic arm, right? Just think of me as an extreme amputation case.

All These Worlds is a spectacular conclusion to the Bobiverse trilogy. This book continued to explore emotions, responsibility to ephemerals, and what it means to be alive. This story was able to weave guilt and grief in with humour, and dangle a Fermi paradox in for good measure.

I am continually amazed at how simple of a concept this series is and yet how thought provoking it can be. This book flew by because I was eager to read the next sub-plot and see how everything would get concluded...and don't worry, it does!

This has been an excellent series that felt fresh and definitely a page turner (I haven't read a book this fast for a while).

This is supposed to be a fresh start for humanity. We're supposed to start over, without all the former prehistoric bullshit. And instead, this government is just starting it up all over again.

I am reminded of Seveneves and one critique I had was about the repetition of humanity to make bad decisions. I referenced Neil deGrasse Tyson's tweet about Interstellar then, and I will do it again here: "In #Interstellar: On another planet, around another star, in another part of the galaxy, two guys get into a fist fight."

It's so perfect and absurdly accurate, but maybe humanity will always be at each other's throats and repeating mistakes from our past? And without the support of the Bob's, would humanity be doomed?

I love the questions this book raises without being too heavy handed. Fun read and highly recommend the book/series to others.

saxnot reviewed All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, 3)

Really loved all 3 books and it kept me away from sleep because I had to read

5 stars

It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.

The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.

Minotaur reviewed All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, 3)

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3 stars

A decent finish to the series.

Wetdryvac reviewed All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, 3)

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5 stars

Well now, that's one hell of an endgame - and one hell of a start.

Kibrika reviewed All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #3)

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Maybe it's just me being a bit sick, but I got tired by the end of this book and couldn't quite keep up. I don't know how the situation they got in could be prevented from sounding in part like an accounting problem (how many of this unit vs how many of those; how many people vs how much space; how many minutes vs how fast can we...) and I've always disliked big battles in general.

I guess the book wrapped up as well as it could but now I'm left with the feeling that I was supposed to care most about first Bob for some reason more than others.

The few things I disliked most about the last two books are the lack of other human replicants, and the lack of alien species that are not just humans by another name (except for the one and we don't get to explore it much). The book gives a super weak excuse for the first and none at all for the second.

I did really enjoy the idea behind the series, and I don't feel like it wore too thin, but I'm glad it's over and not turning into a soap opera where you tune in to follow a cast of favourite characters doing predictable things.