Part of Bobiverse, book 1
First published 2017
Bob Johansson sells his software company and plans a relaxing retirement filled with travel, reading, and entertainment. A street accident cuts his plans short. He awakens one hundred years later as a digital consciousness. The government owns him now. Cryogenically frozen people have lost all legal rights. Bob faces a stark choice. Accept assignment as the artificial intelligence controlling an interstellar probe searching for new worlds, or face permanent shutdown. Other nations race to launch their own probes first. They use violent methods to eliminate competition. Bob accepts the mission and flees Earth at maximum velocity. Space seems safer than remaining planetbound. The universe holds dangerous creatures that attack intruders. Bob discovers that survival requires more than just escaping human conflicts.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, space-opera, artificial-intelligence
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Earth, Space
Period: 100 Years in the Future
299 pages · Paperback · Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency