fatalicus rated All These Worlds: 2 stars
All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #3)
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob …
The premisse of the series is good and the story is well written from a content point of view.
But the author has a problem that continues in this book from book 1, and will probably continue in book 3: The addition of instant communication not being in the books from the start.
The books should have been written in a way that took that in to account, but instead we now end up with chapters that jump backwards and forwards in time, taking little to no account for who is in the chapters.
As an example, there is a series of chapters where you start with Bob-1 getting FTL communication and getting in touch with the others, then a chapter that is a decade+ into the future where Bob-1 is contacted by someone else about a topic, then the very next chapter we are a decade+ back in time …
