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Published Sept. 19, 2017 by Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance.
"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 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."--Publisher's description.
Not as good as the first book
Great book! Won't make a lot of sense if you haven't read the first, and it's a great followup anyway.
This series is one of the most original sci-fi series I've read in a while
A fairly breezy book. The main character(s) have a fun personality and I have enjoyed the idea of seeing iterations bring out different aspects of the original. The new species in this book is fun; I hope we get more of them in the final book.
The author introduces some challenging questions and gives them a very light touch. Is our finitude part of what gives us meaning as a person? If saving our species means eradicating another, should we do it? Is life just nasty, brutish, and short?
This time around we get to see some of the development process that went into all those technologies that make interstellar colonization possible.
The Bobs actually encounter problems they have a hard time solving.
The reliance on one time busters instead of lets say a drone with a Gatling gun or at least a number of guided missiles, seems like a contrived limitation. Especially considering what happens towards the end.
As before the Bobs are having fun and so am I.
