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The epic and highly anticipated conclusion to the listener-favorite series that had countless Audible listeners (and employees) hooked from the very first Bob – featuring, as always, a flawless performance from the inimitable Ray Porter.
Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can’t stay out of trouble.
They’ve created enough colonies so humanity shouldn’t go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper.
Still stinging from getting their collective butts kicked in their first encounter with the Others, the Bobs now face the prospect of a decisive final battle to defend Earth and its colonies. But the Bobs are less disciplined than a herd of cats, and some of the younger copies are more concerned with their own local problems than defeating the Others.
Yet salvation may come from an unlikely source. A couple of eighth-generation Bobs have found something out in deep space. All it will take to save the Earth and perhaps all of humanity is for them to get it to Sol – unless the Others arrive first.
All These Worlds is the third installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series – which has sold more than one million copies.
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Reviewer: robbie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun ending to a great thrilogy, but there are 4 books!
Review: I had a great time with this one.it was well written, fast paced and i loved the different story archs off all the bobs.I wasn’t ready to “finish” the trilogy, because i already have the 4th book in my possession and thought that there will be a continuation of this particular narrative, but the way this book ends has a feeling that this is the conclusion of the story.I jumped straight into reading this one after finishing the second one, but I doubt I’ll keep on going, like I said, it feels like a conclusion of sorts.I would love to see some more Deltan evolution because that is what is so fun about speculation and evolution, but this book signs off nicely regarding that aspect.A bit of a spoiler…I did feel like defeating the others was a bit too “easy” and simple at the end, but I’m still OK with that.All in all, its a good read, fun and quick and nice to run through it.
Reviewer: Tristan M.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good read but small complaint
Review: While I did enjoy the book. I was looking forward to this book and Bob solving the problem of the others. The book just went on old story archs and didn’t address the others tell towards the very end, and even then it was very anticlimactic resolution. I just wanted more about others and fighting. But I guess this isn’t a military hard science fiction book.
Reviewer: Anthony
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent Space Based Sci Fi Series
Review: Again, very well researched and an excellent balance of theoretical science, character development, and action. This was exactly the type of series I was looking to read and the rest of the series is just as good. I highly recommend this for anyone looking for a good space based sci fi series to read.Warning: SpoilersThe conflict between the Bobs and the Others was a little cliche, but the author made it unique and did a good job of it. It does rely a bit on other sci fi work and pop culture references, but makes up for it with the well researched theoretical science. The mix of conflict, exploration, and a variety of threats that the main characters had to face was great. The main concept of the replicants and the continuous debate about them throughout the series was very well thought out. The only parts that I did not like about the series was the extreme focus that Bob-1 has on the Deltans and his non-existent involvement in the conflict with the Others. I also wish that the story had led to the Bobs discovering another peaceful space based intelligent species, maybe shortly after their victory with the Others, but it was still a good ending. Again, highly recommend for sci fi enthusiasts.
Reviewer: Generalist
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great book, awesome series
Review: Truly one of the best sci-fi book series of all time.Do yourself a favor and read the entire series.
Reviewer: James Lee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wowsa fun time!
Review: This was a wild adventure. A lot of big developments ranging from intense, hilarious and devastating. It’s getting to the point that it’s really getting insane! Can’t wait for more.
Reviewer: Kasey’s Book Hoard
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: fandom fun
Review: genre: science fiction, humorThis is a fun hard scifi series full of nerdy nods to nearly every fandom you can think of. If you are a science fiction fan, these are for us! I admit to being a bit bored with book 1, but the series has grown on me as it moves along.I think my biggest complaint is just keeping all the different Bobs straight — what is each one doing and where. But Taylor certainly doesn’t leave me hanging, including hints that help with the confusion. There’a also a few tips of the hat to the problem, as the characters themselves admit to difficulties among the growing Bob-flock.Book 3 is full of action on all the Bob fronts. Conflict on planets and across the stars. Bobs just can’t stay away from trouble!
Reviewer: Reasonable Reviewer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The best of the three books and a grand finale
Review: After book two, I went into Book 3 with some reservations.Dennis Taylor definitely delivers in Book 3.I have the advantage or the disadvantage of writing this review after a lot of other folks (as opposed to the Others) have written reviews.Here is a quick summary (without spoilers). Bob learns to embrace what he has become, and not what he was. The Bob-i-verse is all about doing whatever you want without time constraints and few physical limitations. Bob is no longer human, and in this book he embraces what he might be in all of its variegated forms.By the end of the book, the major plot issues (minus one) from the previous books have been addressed in a final way, and you are reasonably happy with where the author leaves things off.While there could be further books in the Bob-i-verse, it seems unlikely, and as a reader, I am fine with where things are left.A little more meaty review follows.** Beware good reader, spoilers this way lie **Now to respond to a few criticisms of the book by other reviewers.(1) The timeline is confusing. Yes, you’re right. It certainly can be. I listened to the audiobook version and did not have a piece of paper handy to write down times and events, but that probably would have been useful. At times, I had to stop the book audio and think, “that does not make sense in light of last chapter,” and then realize that the events of the last chapter did not happen yet for the Bob in this chapter. Given that there were several hundred Bobs by the end of the book and they were spread across several thousand cubic light-years, it would have been tough to portray unless Dennis had done it “Game of Thrones” style. A few chapters are done that way, the ones surrounding the battle at Earth include several chapters that occur near simultaneously.(2) The battle with the Others and the final solution of the Others is anti-climactic. Um, you have not sold me on this one. The entire book leads up to the big battle in Sol, and in a way, Bob is both clever and lucky to win against the Others in Sol. Bob’s cheaty knowledge of physics comes to the rescue, and Dennis does remind us repeatedly that the Others are very arrogant. The Bobs very nearly lost the battle for Sol.As to the final destruction of the Others in their home system, the “Hail Mary” play is telegraphed in an early chapter, and every so often we return to the pair of Bobs on the crazy mission. We know that the Others have only colonized one system, and if that system can be wiped out then they are done.The solution, hurl planets into their sun at true relativistic speeds and cause a nova, is a fairly clean, scientific approach as opposed to space opera, but it makes sense in light of the Bob-i-verse, and Dennis did leave us some hints in the earlier books.(3) Bob would not just abandon humanity at the end of the book. Yes, that seemed a bit implausible to me too. That said, all the Bobs did not leave humanity. Some stayed around to patrol the skies around the colonies. Some continued to work on biospheres. Other Bobs raised families. All in all, it seemed reasonable that some of the Bobs would head out to explore new worlds.Those were the main objections I saw.In this book, the Others are beaten at Sol (barely), and their home system is destroyed by causing their sun to nova.Bob moves on from Eden after living for twenty years as a Deltan in an android body. Once his last Deltan friend dies, Bob is ready to move on from mortality. Bob’s lack of a family as a human drives him to seek closure for the family need in the early part of his immortality. This arc made sense to me.There is only one additional replicant made, and that is one of Bob’s human sweethearts. The book explains that serving mankind in the afterlife seems like a burden. So, ipso facto, no one wants to become a replicant.I’m not sure that I buy that. Dennis deals with religion obliquely and mostly negatively. If you eliminate a religious afterlife then my gut says that many, many people would seek to live on as replicants. No strike, no foul though.There were plenty of Bobs by the end of the book.Yes, true, Dennis never did eliminate the evil Brazilian replicants. Yes, that is an annoying, hanging thread, but the Bob-i-verse is robust and more than able to deal with the one annoying antagonist.At the end of the book, in the final Moot, the Bobs essentially agree that they no longer feel obligated to defend humanity. It is a non-binding resolution, just a general feeling that is codified and passed along to the human colonies. Still, at the end of the book, there are still many Bobs working on helping humans out.The last scene is of original Bob visiting the ice covered glacier that was Las Vegas and bidding farewell to Bill and Will, his first copies.By the end of the final chapter, Dennis had closed out the Bob-i-verse, and I was OK with saying good-bye.That is a fine way to end a trilogy.Well done Dennis!
Reviewer: rodell22
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: As usual (just like the first two), itâs an excellent book.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve been thinking about posthumanism for the past 15 years or so… this is the first sci fi author that gets where we are going right. (Except I tink I know how to get around the initial transfer of conciousness from bio to artificial issue. Hint, microbot injections to gradually highjack natural neuron replacement, yay biomimickry) anyway, good stuff.
Reviewer: Murat Kavak
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Eine wunderbar komische und fesselnde Story die im Nerdstyle daherkommt
Reviewer: Les Rouges
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Really exciting and some weird concepts to grapple with. Would you really want to be immortal?
Reviewer: MRG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Creative narrative , futuristic setting, technological possibility, just nudging the unreal with enough credible plots and majorly fuels the questions of tech singularity, good over evil, humaneness and I think god (Bob, rhyme much)
Reviewer: Scifi fan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Well crafted characters and an interesting universe. I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading more from this author
