#31 in Science fiction
For We Are Many
- 381
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“For We Are Many” offers the same pleasures as the first Bobiverse book: a self-replicating space probe with a sense of humour, alien threats and a struggling humanity to rescue. With so many copies of Bob in play, the narrative jumps between them constantly, which some find disjointed and others easier to follow than before. Some readers find the ending underwhelming, as a middle volume’s can be. Start with book one.
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About the book
The second installment in Dennis E. Taylor’s imaginative sci-fi saga follows an AI-powered interstellar explorer as he confronts alien threats, chaotic post-apocalyptic hurdles, and the ultimate challenge of saving humanity. Waking up after death wasn’t on Bob Johansson’s bucket list. But here he is, four decades later, inhabiting the mind of a sentient computer and piloting a self-replicating space probe. It was supposed to be a dream gig—explore the cosmos, find new worlds, repeat. Instead, everything has gone spectacularly off-script. Humanity is hanging by a thread after a devastating war wiped out 99.9 percent of the human race. The planet is spiraling into nuclear darkness, extremist groups are fighting over what scraps of civilization remain, and rogue Brazilian probes are doing their best to annihilate everything in their path. And the Bobs have encountered a terrifying alien species with one very straightforward view of other life forms: food. Bob never signed up to be a hero, and he certainly didn’t expect to play God to a fledgling alien civilization. Now, he faces the ultimate question: Can a scattered army of digital copies, outnumbered and outgunned, outsmart extinction itself? Packed with snarky humor, jaw-dropping discoveries, and a heaping dose of heart, For We Are Many continues the wildly inventive saga that redefines what it means to be human...or at least post-human.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.6 across 1,226 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 8.5 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 11 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 8.6 | 1.2K | 99% |
Frequently asked
How long is For We Are Many?
It has 381 pages — shorter than 66% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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