WE ARE LEGION

(BOOK 1 OF THE BOBIVERSE)

WRITTEN BY: DENNIS E. TAYLOR

BOOK SYNOPSIS: 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 A.I. in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The Stakes are high, no less than first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he’ll be switched off and they’ll try declines the honor, he’ll be switched off and they’ll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target for sabotage. 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. The way to get there is to do what the state wants. But to get to that point, he will have to survive everything from foreign saboteurs to guerilla raids. If he manages to live through launch day, there’s still a good chance the other probes will be armed and focused on eliminating the competition the old-fashioned way.

And Bob will discover that the universe contains entities even more unfriendly that the competing probes.

NERDY THOUGHTS: We are Legion was the most out of this world, engaging book that I have read this year. There wasn’t a time when I wanted to put it down, just ask my husband! (Poor guy) Being the nerd that I am, this book grabbed me from the very first page, after the first chapter I had more in common with the main character Bob, than I had with most people. Which is very hard to do considering I rarely find a book that I can get into extremely fast, I usually get to the first paragraph and put it lower on my ‘To Read’ list.

We are Legion has everything a science fiction loving nerd (like myself) loves in a book, from Von Neumann probes to exploring the galaxy and finding aliens. For only being Taylor’s second book published I’m quite impressed and am looking forward to the second book of the Bobiverse!

--To find more information on Dennis E. Taylor’s future books visit his website at Dennisetaylor.org