Himmelsfluss

ebook epub, 720 pages

German language

Published Aug. 2, 2022 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-3-641-28016-1
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4 stars (71 reviews)

Hundert Jahre ist es jetzt her, dass Bender sich auf den Weg zu den Sternen gemacht hat. Seither haben Bob und die Klone nichts mehr von ihm gehört. Bob ist fest entschlossen, eine Expedition in den Deep Space zu organisieren, um herauszufinden, was mit Bender geschehen ist, doch er hat ein gewaltiges Problem: Inzwischen sind seine Klone in der 24. Generation. Manche von ihnen haben sich so verändert, dass sie gar nicht mehr er selbst zu sein scheinen. Sie haben ihre eigenen Pläne. Und so droht über Bobs Suchaktion ein Bürgerkrieg zwischen den Klonen auszubrechen ...

4 editions

Winging it never seemed so easy

4 stars

For some weird reason Dennis forgot how to write for the first few chapters and the last few chapters, but the rest of this long book is just plain excellent. It's it fourth in the Bobiverse series, and the style is completely different, but it's still a good book anyway. If you wanted more of the same, you'll be disappointed, but the book is so well written you'll forget your were expecting something else.

Review of 'Heaven’s River' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It would appear that utopia is an unstable state.

The Bobiverse lives on in Heaven's River and as a fan of the trilogy I enjoyed this story. However, there was something lacking from making this a four star read.

Perhaps the search for Bender was a little drawn out in the beginning? I enjoyed the anthropology aspects from the initial trilogy by exploring new worlds and biomes through the eyes of someone on the ground. Having this happen again bordered on repetitive. The topopolis and Quinlans are unique locales and occupants but this "new world being explored" narrative would be tiresome if it repeats book after book.

It felt like there was very little else going on in the story outside of searching for Bender, and maybe having some shift in story focus occur earlier would have helped. When the bubbles of civil war did appear this was a pleasant …

Review of 'Heaven’s River' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

"utopia is an unstable state"

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More Bobiverse stories, I was so excited!

Only I'd probably enjoyed the book a lot more if I'd reread the previous books.
In the 2 years after I read those I forgot a lot, and this book made me feel it!
A lot of reference back to previous story points and characters that the book didn't really helped explain.

Heaven's river is an enjoyable story but didn't spark the joy of the first 3.
I guess this story is a bit of a transitional book after the first trilogy and sets up a new universe with different factions and politics inside the Bobiverse. They almost start to feel like humans YUCK!

Review of "Heaven's River" on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

I was so excited when this came out that I dropped the other book I was reading. It certainly didn't disappoint. If you've read the rest of the series, then there's really not much to say about this book. It stayed on track, delivers everything you would come to expect from the bobiverse: humor, intrigue, exploration of exotic space-lands, political tensions and the odd space war. In general, the same excellence as the last installments.

The focus on rescuing Bender made the story perhaps a bit myopic for a universe of Von Neumann probes; which was acknowledged by a number of elder bobs throughout the story, many of which are gearing up for a second expansion of the borders of known space. That's perhaps the only missing aspect of the standard tropes one comes to expect from the bobiverse in this book.

The internal bobiverse conflict was, at least to …

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