Part of Bobiverse, book 2
First published 2017
Bob Johansson never expected an afterlife. He certainly never expected to wake up as a sentient computer controlling a Von Neumann probe. Four decades have passed since Bob and his digital copies left Earth to search for habitable worlds. The mission has gone sideways in every possible way. A global war wiped out nearly all humans. Nuclear winter chokes the planet. Brazilian space probes hunt down Bob's copies across the galaxy. A radical faction wants to exterminate the human survivors. Bob has stumbled into an even worse problem. He discovered an alien species that devours every other form of life it encounters. The primitive natives on one world now worship him as a god. Bob wanted quiet exploration among the stars. Instead he must shepherd humanity to safety while preventing total annihilation of all life in local space.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, space-opera, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Earth, Brazil, Von Neumann Probe
Period: 4 Decades
311 pages · Paperback · Worldbuilder Press
Content warnings: death, violence