All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3

4.5/5 starsAll These Worlds is the third book in the pop science fiction Bobiverse series following a post-human computerized starship intelligence. With greater responsibilities comes more Bobs, and each clone has to deal with humanity, the other sentient species they have encountered, and the threats that have discovered along their way. The Others have harvested a lot of other planets and Earth might be its next target, so the Bobs have to finish establishing habitable colonies, evacuate every human from Earth, and find a way to defeat the Others. But then there’s also the rogue Brazillian probe to fight off, the Pav they have to relocate, and the Deltans to protect; and all while dealing with the potential losses as the people they have met grow older.This is probably the best Bobiverse book yet. It is far more emotionally investing, especially with its theme of loss as the Bobs’ immortality as an AI overtakes the inherent humanity of everyone he has grown to know and love. There are some sad and moving moments that elicited some tears from me. Aside from those though, the book continues to maintain its humor and light tone with the many Bob personalities shines through in their slight variations. There might have been a bit too much quick shifting of perspectives between Bobs and their respective divergent plotlines, but everything mostly did tie in together by the end. While not really a finale, this could have served as the final book in a trilogy as it closes out the many plot threads the first two book opened while leaving just a few open for future installments (there are two more already).Ultimately, All These Worlds is a satisfying finale for the first three Bobiverse books.

Book 3 wraps up some story arcs while leaving the door open for new ones. Many, many years have passed since Book 2. I think we’re on 8th generation Bobs now, but most of our time is spent with the original Bobs. Bridgette has made a big choice that affects humanity, followed by another one that affects the Bobs. There’s still very few female characters in this story but I have hopes the next book will get us a few more.The heat between the Bobs (and humanity) and the Others has ramped up. Looks like we need to put an end to their aggression! But the Others are way more advanced than the Bobs, so it’s going to be a tough fight. However, the Bobs put a sooner-rather-than-later target on their backs as they swoop in and save another species before the Others can do their destructive thing. I really liked some of the questions the rescue of the Pav brings up. Like they had no say in the matter – if it should be done or how it should be done. A lot of that was due to time constraints, but it makes me think of Star Trek and the moral issues of ‘interfering’ with less tech advanced species.Meanwhile, there’s a big plan to deal with the Others. Icarus and Daedalus (some later generation Bobs) are central to that plan. It was cool to see what a Bob Hero looks like on such a big scale. Speaking of heroes, there’s still Medeiros, the Brazilian probe, to deal with. Despite how that turns out in this book, I have a small hope we see Medeiros one more time, but for a redemption story.I liked the jaunt over to Poseidon where the government has become a rather invasive and controlling force. While this was a small part of the story, I couldn’t help but think of some of the passive surveillance modern human societies deal with. Over all, it was a fun addition to the series. 4.5/5 stars.The Narration: Ray Porter continues to do Bob justice. My only tiny quibble is that I still have trouble keeping all the Bobs straight when several are in the same conversation. Still loving Bridgette’s accent. I really like Bob’s serious nature, with all the big decisions made in this book. Bob’s emotional response to saying goodbye to the Deltans was also done very well. The pacing was perfect & there were no tech issues with the recording. 4.5/5 stars.

This whole series is great. It's as if Douglas Adams and Arthur C Clark went to Ray Bradbury's house and someone definitely got pregnant. All of his books are very good. Read them all.

The third book in the Bobiverse series has Bob and his replicant army, trying to save humanity and other races from oblivion by the others. Not to mention a skirmish with Brazil. It’s all out war with everything in the local galaxy at stake. Meanwhile, as the replicants are with their own preferences and personalities, there is romance, fellowship, heartbreak and Bobs united against a common foe; and yet, there is an underlying tension about the implied role of the Bob collective.

More of the same good Bobiverse fun! It completes several story arcs, but I see there are more books, so I will be grabbing those too!

All These Worlds is the conclusion of the Bobiverse series. It brings all the threads from the previous two books to their conclusion.The series is well written and well edited with several interesting plot lines and characters that are more than just cardboard. The books are fun and fairly quick reads. While not pretentiously philoshical, the Bobiverse books do have some thought provoking elements around what it means to be human and what “self” might mean if personality could be cloned. I really appreciate that the author has a point or two to make along with all the well-crafted action scenes.Given the low price (potentially free if you’ve subscribed to the Kindle Unlimited program) I didn’t have super high expectations for the series, but I was pleasantly surprised. Mr. Taylor is a first rate author and I’m looking forward to reading whatever he writes next.

Such a fun take on AI and the ethics of it through a regenerated man. We explore his personas and see all the complexities of the ethics behind it

I was drawn in by the clever prose of the first chapter - and ended up reading the first 3 books over a holiday weekend. I got involved needed to see how things turned out :)

a very good read, as were all 3 bobiverse books. I enjoyed them very much and read them within 3 weeks, got quite hookedall three books had humour, thrills, good sci-fi concepts, and nice character descriptions.

Really exciting and some weird concepts to grapple with. Would you really want to be immortal?

Creative narrative , futuristic setting, technological possibility, just nudging the unreal with enough credible plots and majorly fuels the questions of tech singularity, good over evil, humaneness and I think god (Bob, rhyme much)

Another arc down, making me wonder what will come next. Fantastic writing a d series. Well worth reading that's for sure

I've been thinking about posthumanism for the past 15 years or so... this is the first sci fi author that gets where we are going right. (Except I tink I know how to get around the initial transfer of conciousness from bio to artificial issue. Hint, microbot injections to gradually highjack natural neuron replacement, yay biomimickry) anyway, good stuff.