The best First Contact Science Fiction eBooks eBooks: Reddit reviews

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I'm reminded of a line of dialogue in a book I recently read (well, listened to). To expound on the plot summary on Amazon, the protagonist awakens to find that, while he was dead, the US became a theocratic state. Cryogenic preservation was ruled to be blasphemous, preserved people were declared to be dead, and all related assets were confiscated and sold off, including the preserved people.

The protagonist observes that it seems like it the proper action would have been to just bury the people, to which the other character replies, "Did theologues limit themselves to logical or consistent behavior in your time?"

I laughed so hard at that line - especially how it's delivered by the narrator - that I nearly had to pull my car off the road.

While not a LitRPG I feel like the Bobiverse scratches the same itch very well.

It's about a guy who's consciousness is put into a robot and shot off into space. He has 3D printers that can create anything he can think of, including copies of himself. While not living "in a game" he still creates his own VR world that he shares with his copies and can control his perception of time by speeding up/slowing down his processor.

He explores, invents, creates and discovers tons of amazing stuff.

For those in the EU the book is also available on the German Amazon store.

https://www.amazon.de/PThok-Chronicles-Tales-Terran-Confederacy-ebook/dp/B08RY8QYYX

saves on shipping. ( shipping was more expensive then the paper back )

>Oh, I did a thing, by the way:https://www.amazon.com/PThok-Chronicles-Tales-Terran-Confederacy-ebook/dp/B08RY8QYYX

I'm holding out for the completed works.

I got a 1200 page hard cover copy of Lord Of The Rings, its a single volume. It's a huge weighty tome.

I want another monster to stick on the shelf next to it.

No E books. I'm a Terran, even my literature should be a weapon.

speaking of, defiance of the fall is my number one recommendation, first is on amazon and the rest is on royalroad, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09168R29M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks&qid=1627873967&sr=1-1

another good one would be threadbare, about a sapient teddy bear golem

• <strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes. The first tome (~600 chapters) is completed, the audiobooks are there.

Have you heard of We are Bob? It's a book that started as audiobook series. It very closely goes through the scenario you mention. One of the best sci-fi series imo.

It's available on Amazon Kindle which you can read on a smart phone or even your computer.

Before doing that, read Cixin Liu's famous trilogy to see why there's a good chance of it going horribly wrong. (First two books anyway, by then you'll have the point.)

Give the Bobiverse series a try.

The premise: An engineer signs up for cryogenically freezing his brain when he dies on a whim. A bus runs him over. He wakes up hundreds of years in the future except it has been determined that these frozen brains are now the property of the state. They couldn't unfreeze him and bring him back to life, but they COULD use his brain as a template to be mapped into a computer system. He is now effectively an AI, given control over a Von Neuman probe that is to be sent out to colonize space.

There's lots of fun world building and an interesting look at the human condition. They're pretty clever with Bob too. For example, there's no such thing as Faster Than Light travel, so Bob just turns his clock speed down. In this way he experiences time slower than is actually happening and doesn't go insane on the long journey between planets. The books really start to pick up as he constructs other Bobs, each with their own slightly different personalities.

https://www.amazon.com/Defiance-Fall-LitRPG-Adventure-TheFirstDefier-ebook/dp/B09168R29M

Just register to Amazon, go to buy, enter your credit card details and buy it. Afterwards you can get the Kindle app.

• City of Sin from a Chinese author, it is definitely inspired by Planescape: Torment, it is a representative of the rare D&D xianxia genre. The hero is a runemaster, heir to the cursed clan, where the devil bloodline is supported by incest, he rises to power in the planar metropolis, leads planar invasions. Epic, drama and all sorts of 18+. The novel and its translation are completed.

• <strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes. The first tome (~600 chapters) is completed.

<strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong>, there's the audiobook too.

It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes.

https://www.amazon.com/Between-Worlds-Occupation-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08VD7DKC7

Okay is it turns out there's probably not physical copies, but I'm sure I could download it if we raided a warehouse. Amazon's (the character type) aren't normally my thing but I like science fiction.

You might really enjoy a book series called “The Bobiverse”

It’s about a von Neumann probe with an Ai made of a human engineers (Bob) brain scan.

The science is pretty solid and general relativity and time dilation is an integral part of the plot.

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=nodl_

It's not litrpg, but would a sci-fi anti-harem work? I feel it's anti-harem because the MC is having lots of sex, but there's a lot of gender reversal in it. It's called Between Worlds Amazon.com: Between Worlds (The Occupation Saga Book 1) eBook: Williams, J.L.: Kindle Store . Set up is that Earth has been invaded by humanoid aliens who have an eight to one female/male ratio.

For a perspective on how things might go for a cryonics patient in the future, read &quot;We Are Legion (We Are Bob)&quot; by Dennis E. Taylor. The audiobook narration is great!

Seriously though, try not to think about it. Everything ends. That's life. Live in the moment. You have the ability to choose how you want your life to go. Enjoy life while it lasts and appreciate how lucky you are to be self-aware as a human with opposable thumbs, Pokemon, and SpongeBob.

One thing that I've learned is that some books that you buy on Amazon will let you add the narration for really cheap if you buy the book. So instead of paying $30 for a book (or $15 a month for a credit), you can buy a kindle book on sale and 'add' the audio book.

I'm currently listening to a series called the Bobiverse thanks to this. The first book (We are Legion, We are Bob) was only $4 for the book and then another $2 to add the audiobook. If you like sci-fi/adventure books, I'd recommend it, it's dumb fun.

Also don't forget that your local library probably offers audiobooks on OverDrive.

if you are interested in this subject and like sci-fi i highly recommend that you read children of time

I may have used the wrong term, it's from Life in the North. https://www.amazon.com/Life-North-Apocalyptic-LitRPG-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B073PNL3BP (Sorry, I forget how to link, and too lazy/stoned to look it up. ;) ) and he's not a Golden Knight, he's an Erethran Honor Guard, which I imagined to be golden armored, so I got confused aha.

I think you want /r/TrekBooks

The only Trek book that I've read and enjoyed enough to remember anything about it is A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson, fleshing out his DS9 character, Garak.

This is an easy one.

The Bobiverse series from Dennis E. Taylor is very factorio like.
First Book is called "We are Legion (We are Bob)"

Amazon Description:
>!Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.!<

>!(https://www.amazon.de/Are-Legion-Bobiverse-Book-English-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)!<

>Tao Wong > >The System Apocalypse (Apocalypse-12 Books) > >Adventures on Brad (Native RPG-9 Books)

Let's not give him additional publicity, please. He's an overly-litigous jerk, despite being a good author.

So just to follow up, I just purchased The Three Body Problem from Amazon (again, Kindle sale only, otherwise I would've grabbed from Kobo. Grr...) and imported it into Calibre using the same method. When I imported it, it initially just shows author and ID on the right-hand side, but when I went to edit the metadata individually, I saw that it had populated the isbn and publisher, as well.

(Was going to attach screenshots but imgur seems to be down ATM)

Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse .. 3 books all about exploration and first contact and saving earth ..

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ is litrpg-adjacent.

Guy wakes up, and he's a spaceship. (sorta).

Then transitions into a empire building/combat thing with massive light-speed delays.

There's a sci-fi book series I read called We Are Bob. It's about a human who has his consciousness uploaded into a Von Neumann probe, essentially the first synthetically ascended human. Aside from nostalgia and interacting with other humans, the human form is kinda impractical for even menial labor when there are more efficient forms.

It's a great series and super quick read. I know it's on Amazon (maybe digital only). I got the audio books and listened to them back and forth from work.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Defiance of the Fall is really scratching this itch for me right now. Book one didn't totally sell me on the story till near the last quarter of the book but after that it's full speed ahead. I'm on book 4 right now and loving it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09168R29M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&amp;storeType=ebooks

Cool thing. I am slogging through (book #12) of the Wot right now, but a big sci-fi nerd and general fantasy.

Recommend the Bobiverse books by Dennis Taylor. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWAESYQ?notRedirectToSDP=1&amp;ref\_=dbs\_mng\_calw\_0&amp;storeType=ebooks