I need more

Absolutely loved the Bobiverse. So much better than it sounds. It's like a collection of awesome short stories all intertwined into one epic universe and overarching plot. I want to load up a backup from a few months ago so I can listen to them all again.

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One of the best series ever written

Truly incredible writing. This series has something for everyone; anthropology, AI, space, classic sci fi references, philosophy, psychology, comedy, suspense, what it means to be human and what it means to evolve, imaginative new species, both younger and older than our own, exploration of various types of relationships and their meaning to us as individuals, gorgeous emotional character development, varied but not convoluted plot, absolutely incredible narration with beautiful characterisation and acting. I honestly cannot recommend these books enough. Thoroughly enjoyed.

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A terrific read

Given the subject matter is the adventures of cloned computerised minds as they make their way through the galaxy, the humanity of the story is fulsome. This is a touching account of what it means to be human in the face of adversity. The various "Bobs" - the cloned minds of a dead programmer - pursue different paths, love in different ways, and fight for the existence of all sentient life. It's warm, clever and gripping, with no padding and a pacy storyline that allows the reader very little put-down time. But for the need to sleep, I would have read this in one sitting. I look forward to the next episode in the Bobiverse.

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Fantastic

I love this series, it's just brilliant. The writing is good, the amount of humour is perfect and the characters although all the Bob's originate from one it's so great to see the differences between them. I loved that although they were basically the same there were ones that I was more interested in hearing how they were doing than others.

If you like sci fi then I'm sure you will enjoy this trilogy.

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Literally could not put it down!

One of my favorite series ever, I'm genuinely sad its over...think I'll go listen to the first one again

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Loitering in the stone age and missing opportunity

I really liked the first book, was a touch underwhelmed by the second book and hate myself for disliking the third.

I am sad to say that I have found this third instalment very superficial in that it gave the impression of simply typing up all the loose ends to close the series and introducing no interesting or new concepts. What's more I found a lot of characters and thought processes unrealistic.

The others were building a dyson sphere in the book 2 and I half expected this to be about Matrioshka brain of the others versus parallel computing of the Bob, but all it came down to was just a big old fight with nukes and lasers and I felt that it was a missed opportunity to make the story thought-provoking like a culture novel would. The fact that the others were barely even mentioned until chapter 63 was another irritant in my opinion. Instead, this sc-fi novel lingered for at least four times as long as it needed to on the stone age deltans.

Lastly, I have spent an unreasonably large amount of effort to not just stop listening when the colony council decided to attack one of Bob's clones in an effort to retain their power over the colony, after having been warned and dismissing Bob's objections and concerns and after Brigitte's daughter has done everything possible to annoy the Bob clone.

BOB! the God-like AI that controls weapons, food and everyone alive owes their life to! If It were me, I would let it go taxidermist on my mother if it felt like it, but apparently in the Bobiverse, everyone and their dog are happy to just underestimate and dismiss the all-powerful being, with neither respect, gratitude, awe, nor fear motivating them to at least taking heed to Bob's input.

I did once again tear up at the funeral scene however, but I think that speaks more about y being a mellow wreck of a person with age, more than anything.

I am very sorry, but I did not like this book.

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Sad

So sad that this is the last of the trilogy. Will live in hope of more Bob stories.

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Mistake was made and corrected

My initial assumption was correct - the recording came without the last hour/14 chapters, but now it contains the full book. You just have to redownload it. If Audible can contact early buyers they should do so, because it would be a great shame if they wouldn't be able to experience a proper closure to this great series.

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The final book- good story, meh ending

So you've done it, you've either gotten to the 3rd book and trying to decide to continue on or you've finished and now trying to see if anyone else thinks like you do and reading reviews of this book. Well these are my thoughts on the final book in the Bobverse.

Book 3 is a meh ending to a good story. The big conflict ends pretty much how you expect- just how it got there is, well, meh. I won't spoil it, but I was hoping for something better. My feeling is the author got to a point and had to figure out how to end the book by a certain number of words/pages. I wasn't thrilled with how the battle ended, I felt it was a cheap plot fix honestly.

That said, I did enjoy the way they decided to 'resolve' the others home issue. Many of the storylines resolved well, but not all in my opinion, hence the 'Meh' part of my feelings. but I didn't write this book, I just read it.

Again though, I wanted to know what would happen next and was happy overall with it.

if you are looking for a series with a similar feel, find Nathan Lowell's 'Trader's Tale' series. Again nothing spectacular, but very well written and performed.

I'm sad the series is over, but know that it is still open and more stories can be written in the Bobverse and I hope there will be some.

Thanks Mr. Taylor!

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A waste of a credit

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I recommended the first book before finishing the series, and I'm a bit embarrassed that I did now. I wanted to like this book so much. I listened to all 3 back to back, and by the middle of book three, I was just wishing it would end so I could move on to another book. It had such potential. In book one, Bob replicates himself to create 5 new bobs, with the promise that each would have a part of his personality and become distinct characters, but it didn't follow through on that promise. Each chapter begins with the name of the bob who was narrating but, if you accidentally miss the name, you wouldn't know which character it was. Their voices were all so similar. The only way to tell them apart was by their location or storyline and even that was a stretch because there were so many. The end of the book was the worst anti-climax I have read in a long time; I finished it yesterday and I can't actually remember what happened in the final battle. I only remember who won.

What does Ray Porter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

The narrator was the only redeeming feature of this book by the end. His sense of comic timing and delivery were excellent. But the indistinguishable characters made the narration become boring and predictable. That is not the narrator's fault in any way. I will be looking for other books narrated by him.

Did All These Worlds inspire you to do anything?

I've had a go at writing books myself and have learnt a lot about storytelling in the process. Unfortunately, that means I can see where and why it went wrong and the temptation to write a review that suggests ways to correct it is strong (but I will try to resist). It taught me not what to do when writing a book so in some ways, listening to it was a valuable exercise. Perhaps I'll try writing again.

Any additional comments?

To be brutally honest, this book was a waste of a credit and because it was the final book in the series, that means the other two were a waste of credits too. There's no point in starting a series if you're not motivated to see it through to its conclusion so don't bother with any of them.

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