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Thank you for the immersive experience, Mr. Taylor!

I will be definitely enjoying the book again in German and Russian. Being a fan of “accidental travel” genre, i have found myself in a pleasantly subtle self-fulfilling scenario with a great story development.

I’m not going to badmouth the typical russian “popadanets” (aka. accidental travel) fiction in comparison, but it is for most parts quite heavy on self-fulfillment and Soviet nostalgy, even when we set aside the typical Eve Online fanfiction-esque works in hardcovers with micromanaging game mechanics in the beginning and fast rise to power due to seemingly abandoned mighty war or ancient hightech artifacts.

I almost expected some deus-ex-machina at some point and was glad it wasn’t there, even if it had provided me a little enjoyment.

Another great trait of the story is the cleverly picked up Von Neumann system with its quirks to create a society of different Bobs to interact with, as well as the quite realistic, for most part, ungrateful humanity, that provided the necessary dynamics to the story. When i compare it compared to some ego trips with shock-and-awe treatments, assaults by dumb enemies for sake of power demostrations, perpetual awe by bystanders and continuing ancient gizmos ripe to picked up, (because noone in last thousand years cared to do it) i notice the big difference.

I must say, even villains are interesting, like Medeiros. Was there a mention of design of Brazilian ships? I initially thought he was “programmed to do his job”, like that less successful probe, until i had the feeling of him just going with the hate flow and lost sympathy for him.

I wonder if there are storylines available for good fanfiction or spinoff about USE probes with Russian/German or any good writer from other countries’ minds having that luck escaping from Earth. I should perhaps draw a Bob expansion map to not interfere with the story.

Until then, i will continue to re-read and being inspired for contributions.

Singed.. burnt a little?
Did you sign it with a soldering iron?

Oh my God the Bobiverse is an awesome experience. It would be a damn Greek tragedy if there were no more books in the future. We have to know where what Bill has gotten himself into. Hey … I wanna be a Bob! Thank you Dennis!!!

Can you pitch this to a televison station. It would be very easy and cheap to produce. Please more bobiverse the others are still out there. The mining fleet can produce another queen.

I have to admit I am not really a reader. BUT…. I have a stupid long commute to work and on a whim I got an audible subscription. Not knowing much about what to get I picked up a copy of “The singularity trap”.. Well it didn’t take me long to waist all my spare time burning through that. I am now working my way through the “Bobiverse” . My plan was to use my “audible” subscription to pass the time during my commute but now I find myself listening around the house etc. Nice work.

On another note…Mr. Taylor. You could use an update to your website. It kinda sucks in a purple/boring no photos kind of way.

I LOVED The Singularity Trap, but I have a question: What does Sers mean? I’ve searched everywhere and find no definition.

Dennis,

Do you have any plans to take the Bobiverse series to movies at all? I would love to see them as movies!!!

Congratulations on the success with Audible and otherwise! I read the Bobiverse books when they first came out and had less than a handful of reviews on Amazon Kindle. I was in shock after I read them (and Outland) to see that nobody was really reading them yet. I feel like the world has finally caught on and I’m beyond thrilled to find out that more books are coming out. I have not enjoyed another author before or since I finished the last of your books and finding this webpage and the information about your next books made my day…week…year! Thank you!

Since I purchased all three of the existing Bob books a few months ago, I am very glad that they are digital as if they were magnetic media (cassette tapes) they would already have been worn out. I very much appreciate your attention to technology!!

There are many other things that I absolutely love about this book series. It has been the best purchases I have made on audible! I just need to know where to send money to get more of them 🙂 please sir! Here take it! Thank you for the laughs and the “oh wows”!

I have to thank you for rekindling my interest in writing! I’m currently working on a few projects, including a scifi trilogy of my own. I’m very self defeating though and kind of wish I could get at least some opinions from other writers on things before I release them to the world. 🙁 Also, All hail THE BOB.

‘Fans of the Bobiverse’ Facebook Group:

Hey Dennis, just pre-ordered your new book on audible and can’t wait for it’s release next week. Can you give me a couple of tips for other books you like? I am really frustrated with finding sci-fi that makes me so pissed at the author because he or she throws stupid drama or bogus situations that are apparently thrown in to the story to keep the extremely dim witted reader interested??? Sorry, don’t mean to be a Homer, but that’s really what I think sometimes.

https://bobiverse.fandom.com/wiki/We_Are_Legion_(We_Are_Bob)_Wiki

Can anyone give a more in depth description of the megastructure in the first few chapters of Heaven’s river? I’m struggling to visualize it as described.

Hi, on one the the site pages it refers to ‘the bender book(s)’ plural. Is this still the case or now bender has been found, is that the end of this particular story arc? Btw, really looking forward to Earthside, keep up the good work 🙂

I love, love , love Bobiverse and I am listenignto Heavens Riverfor the umteenth time, and loving it, just found pictures of the topopolis and am hoping they freeze me for the idea of a future like this. yeah, i know thats not all that mature at age 60. But i adore your work , ideas and imagination. it has saved me from a depession and sad slow decline ( I am housebound!!) so thankyou Bob. I mean Mr Dennis E Taylor. best books EVER, and i alwyas was and am an Arther C larke and Bradbury PKD, and many more classics,ERB being my early life favourites,
Just wanted to say THANKYOU XX Eleanor or Clun, England lateraLly now sadly of the EU now its UK.

No series of books had me engaged like this before. I started reading the first one because my name is Bob and I found it funny. Soon after I couldn’t stop and had to get up to date with the other books.

Everything about it is just so awesome. I sincerely hope all books further will keep doing well!

Best regards,
Bob

Just wanted to say that you are just so funny! Besides being a very clever premise and story line, Bob is just a riot. You would have been a great stand up comedian. Thanks for decided to write!

I am finishing “Heavens River” for the second time. So many story lines that can be expanded – Skippys, Star Fleet, the Pav, Quinlins, stupid Humans (of course). I hope that the beginnings of book 5 are being formed.

Glad to hear your wife is doing okay. Best to you both. — Aaron

Love the Bobiverse. Just, plain, love it. I listen to it on Audible. I talk back to it on Audible. I have sat in the parking garage to get to the end of a chapter. I have taken the long way ’round to get to the end. I think about the characters when I’m not listening. You have given me a wonderous gift. Thank you.

Been months since I listened to The Bobiverse series for the first time after being introduced to them by a friend & colleague, and possibly months since I listened to the Quantum Earth novels for the first time.

On a whim I’ve revisited in the hope that you have access to a time machine and have somehow written more already.

It was rather marvellous to discover series of books already written that appealed to me so much.

As a child in the 70’s => 80’s I read voraciously and even paused in the town library on the way home from school every school-day for hours at a time so I could scratch that itch for stories. And non-fiction. I guess also I liked reading in the library as I could then access adult books I couldn’t otherwise take out as a kid.

I wasn’t diagnosed with Asperger’s ’til 2008. The associated precursor of course entailed a great deal of study on neurodevelopment on my part. Sometime post-diagnosis, as I reflected on some of my choices in reading as a child, or at least my favourites that gripped me more than most, it came to me that maybe some of the characteristics of these predominantly male lead – or almost “lone-wolf” type lead protagonists seemed familiar as potentially autistic-like personality traits or behaviours. Or arguably narcissistic on occasion lol. Especially where ability was associated with the character; from Holmes to Simon Templar to Tarzan to Prince Lestat to Lisbeth Salander to Virgil Samms to Jim diGriz to Arthur Dent to Guy Montag and on and on and on … and especially characters adept with technology and working alone. They might be insouciant and irreverent, applauded or maligned, grandiose or simply competent. Victimised or admired and accepted. Brave or cowardly. “Good” or “bad”. But the characters I like are often pragmatic and self-sufficient yet often misunderstood by their peers. Sometimes enigmatic in their apparent intent, their agenda and behaviours. And able to adapt to situations outside of “regular” culture one might accidentally assign to their apparent social status and signalling.

Anyways. There were certain styles of writing and certain types of character that especially appealed to me when done well. Or in some cases appealed to me even when not done well if I found the characters and stories compelling enough. I suspect I might have read a few thousand books by the time my reading tapered off in the 90’s. I would sometimes read more than one in one day. There was some variance titles and genre lol. Honest. But definitely strong leanings. 🙂

To me, (albeit listening on Audible now-a-days while I busy myself with other things) Bobiverse, and the Quantum Earth series, and Roadkill too were reminiscent of many of those stories read long ago. In broad strokes. And of course I could relate to many of the cultural references and empathise with many of the characters’ attitudes and political biases.

I found the stories “fresh” AND “nostalgic” at the same time. They seemed cohesive, thought-out. Sufficient character building in places without being too heavy (although I did enjoy some of the more extreme character building in books like Stephen King’s The Stand … it’s fine if you have time/patience).

Maybe they were a little unrealistic in places where characters’ behaviours and wit seemed a little too consistently adroit so as to maintain the upper-hand in the end despite some token losses .. some heavy losses …. but actually … that appealed to me too. Those aspects are archetypal and resonated with me. I didn’t want the characters I empathised with to lose … I needed them win (and reinforce some of my own biases lol). I found the stories satisfying. Comfortable. The protagonists always, somehow, overcame challenges. I guess that affords me “hope”. 🙂

Sorry for my meandering writing … I struggle to communicate effectively at the best of times and I tend to engage in these sorts of activities when I’m already overtired and should be retiring to bed.

Please keep the books coming (so long as they inspire you to continue). I’m grateful for your work so far. 🙂

Oh – I too am a computer Dev (with hobby interests in various IT, technologies and electronics and so on). Of course I am indulging my curiosity in LLM’s and other AI as I seek to set-up a home-hosted AI friend/assistant at home. Following progress and especially with “NCPs” it does seem to me that there will be much scope in the future to extend the imaginary places built in books into AI populated regions of information. Maybe VR/AR etc. one day. For my personal LLM’s I do intend to try fine tuning models on some favourite books in the hope of working out how to give voice to some of the characters in a deeper way. Maybe even giving “life” to a selected few if I can afford it (with paid access to Chat GPT4) although Llama 2 et al already demonstrate the diminishing lead Chat GPT4 possesses in some categories of AI competency. I think I might need another credit card lol. Oh yeah – the point … I’m hoping that some programming-able authors such as yourself might work on projects additional to the actual books that might open-up some AI populated regions, whatever shape they might take, for people to interact with somehow. 🙂 AI populations living their own lives maybe, with fully fleshed out back stories based on your work. 🙂

Oh dear – I need to sleep. Sorry for all the words! Thanks again. 🙂

Just a big thank you Dennis…. enjoying all the books so much! Finishing my second time through. In the audio books – Ray Porter is the best narrator ever!

I love the series. I run a 3dprinter company and have named all my printers off of the bobiverse.

Looking forward to the next book.

I don’t think I can last much longer without book 5 of the bobiverse there are so many unanswered questions

Just a quick note that “Roadkill” was (and is) one of the great audio books. Brilliantly read by Ray Porter (never ever consider having anyone else read your books, please), the story flows and is fun, while imagining a (to me) completly new “first contact” scenario. Thank you – can’t wait for part 2.

Just finished listening to Roadkill, and thought I heard a plot hole. Went back and listened again, and sure enough, a glitch-

In chapter 6 our heroes drive out in Patrick’s Duster to the field where Alric (Alaric?) parked the Halo. Using the fob, they board it and head out for some adventures.

All well and good, but in Chapter 7 after flitting about the Solar System, they relocate the Halo to Jack’s barn. Patrick and Nat then leave the barn to drive away in the Duster, but I’m pretty sure it’s still parked out at the field where they started in Chapter 6. Near as I can tell, the field is a fifteen or twenty minute drive away from the barn.

Now, I don’t have a hard copy to look at, so maybe I’m missing something- If so, feel free to set the record straight,

Just finished the Not till we are lost. Another amazing book sir! I am so impressed and captivated by the bobiverse. Thank you for writing these and I cannot wait for more! I’m bouncing up and down excited.
The fun of the bobs inventing wormhole travel while ick and say found it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the bobs to actually meet a more advanced species (maybe one that wasn’t part of the federation) or a lone “elder” that the archivist talked about.
Anyhooo thanks again! Your amazing and I wish you could write a 1000 of these books

Hi Dennis,

I am eagerly waiting for the German Audiobook of ‘Not till we are lost’. When will that be released?

Thanks
Thomas

OOOps… sorry… the “event” with deleterious effects desperately needing resolution happens at the start of chapter 28… not 27… “Wish Granted”