{"product":{"product_id":"B01LWAESYQ","title":"We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)","price":"5.95","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/513erhF-l2L._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWAESYQ"},"comments":[{"body":"I'm reminded of a line of dialogue in [a book I recently read](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ) (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.\r\n\r\nThe 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?\"\r\n\r\nI 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.","subreddit_name":"quityourbullshit","author":"N546RV"},{"body":"While not a LitRPG I feel like the [Bobiverse](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ) scratches the same itch very well.\r\n\r\nIt'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.\r\n\r\nHe explores, invents, creates and discovers tons of amazing stuff.","subreddit_name":"litrpg","author":"Yangoose"},{"body":"Give the [Bobiverse series](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ) a try.  \r\n\r\nThe 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.  \r\n\r\nThere'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.","subreddit_name":"ifyoulikeblank","author":"djc6535"},{"body":"You might really enjoy a book series called “The Bobiverse”\r\n\r\nIt’s about a von Neumann probe with an Ai made of a human engineers (Bob) brain scan. \r\n\r\nThe science is pretty solid and general relativity and time dilation is an integral part of the plot. \r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=nodl_","subreddit_name":"rickandmorty","author":"shattasma"},{"body":"For a perspective on how things might go for a cryonics patient in the future, read [\"We Are Legion \\(We Are Bob\\)\" by Dennis E. Taylor.](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ) The audiobook narration is great! \r\n\r\nSeriously 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.","subreddit_name":"TrueAtheism","author":"BillDaCatt"},{"body":"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.\r\n\r\nI'm currently listening to a series called the Bobiverse thanks to this. The first book ([We are Legion, We are Bob](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)) 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.\r\n\r\nAlso don't forget that your local library probably offers audiobooks on OverDrive. ","subreddit_name":"Atlanta","author":"dane83"},{"body":"This is an easy one.\r\n\r\nThe Bobiverse series from Dennis E. Taylor is very factorio like.   \r\nFirst Book is called \"We are Legion (We are Bob)\"\r\n\r\nAmazon Description:  \r\n\u0026gt;!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.\r\r\n\r\r\nBob 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.\r\r\n\r\r\nThe 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.!\u0026lt;\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;!(https://www.amazon.de/Are-Legion-Bobiverse-Book-English-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)!\u0026lt;","subreddit_name":"factorio","author":"bambamdumm"},{"body":"There's a sci-fi book series I read called [We Are Bob](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ). 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.","subreddit_name":"Stellaris","author":"rtfree"},{"body":"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.\r\n\r\n[We Are Legion (We Are Bob)](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)","subreddit_name":"humansarespaceorcs","author":"Gtsinner"},{"body":"Cool thing. I am slogging through (book #12) of the Wot right now, but a big sci-fi nerd and general fantasy.\r\n\r\nRecommend the Bobiverse books by Dennis Taylor.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWAESYQ?notRedirectToSDP=1\u0026amp;ref\\_=dbs\\_mng\\_calw\\_0\u0026amp;storeType=ebooks","subreddit_name":"daytonbookclub","author":"simonalle"},{"body":"https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ\r\n\r\nIt says “1 of 3” in the listing, but he’s up to four books now, with more coming :) The first three books feel mostly like a continuation of a single story arc, where book four jumps off to a kind of “new” story, and IMO was awesome. Watching the otters at the aquarium took on a whole new light after reading Heaven’s River!","subreddit_name":"space","author":"armaddon"},{"body":"It's not litrpg or even really progression fantasy, but [Bobiverse](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ) hits a lot of the same checkmarks as DE for me. MC is an engineer, and his situation is *almost* like a dungeon core reincarnation story. Kinda.\r\n\r\nPlus the narrator for the audiobooks is really good, if you're prefer audio.","subreddit_name":"litrpg","author":"ryecurious"},{"body":"Check out the [Bobiverse](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/) series. It's about one guy in particular who is uploaded to a spaceship's memory system so he can fight other similar AIs from other nations. The AIs replicate themselves, hilarity ensues!","subreddit_name":"scifi","author":"agentsofdisrupt"},{"body":"Could also look at just keeping an eye on whispersync sales. For example \r\nWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JSy5Cb6VQWR2M\r\nKindle book and audio for $7... this is cheaper than any credit I can get from audible.","subreddit_name":"audiobooks","author":"Naturix"},{"body":"I read a book series a couple of weeks ago ([Bobiverse](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)) that mentioned a Dyson sphere. I can't believe how often it has come up since then - like in two different podcasts, all over Reddit today, etc.","subreddit_name":"videos","author":"hopvax"}]}