r/bobiverse

Well... not completely. I'm reading online constantly but I hadn't picked up a good fiction book in over a decade. I wanted to displace some bad habits and doomscrolling and asked a fellow tech nerd for a recommendation. Needless to say I am beyond hooked, perhaps too hooked! Book 1 arrived July 29th and I just finished book 4. Waiting for book 5 to arrive next week and excited to hear that book 6 is on the way.

Living in the middle of the AI transformation we are all experiencing as well as the era of disclosure may have just set the perfect storm for this series to land on me. I've enjoyed the sub seeing fan art and other things.

Can't wait for the next one to show up... losing my mind in anticipation to see where it goes next!

I'm almost done with book 7 of dungeon crawler carl and just now realized I read the wrong book series on accident. in bobiverse, I was curious on why the name "skippies" was so fascinating and knew it came from a book series (expeditionary force) and wanted to check it out but in my confusion, got dcc because somehow in my brain, that was the book people said the skippy name came from. I've been having a ton of fun with the series and only now realizing, I hadn't heard the name skippy at all yet and was incredibly confused on when they would show up. turns out it was in ef and not dcc. oops.

anyways, loving dcc and incredibly excited for the new bobiverse book!!! damnit donut

Why didn’t Riker/Homer just use the USE colony ship design as a basis and expand it to fit more colonists? If they had designed a version that could hold 10X more people they would’ve only needed 150 ships. Which is still a lot and easier said than done I know. Even a version with 2X capacity would’ve reduced potential issues with splitting up groups across different ships. Butterworth would’ve had a cow but I think the bobs could’ve convinced him. Thoughts?

Before I found the Bobiverse, I mostly used AI as a more advanced google search, and maybe occasionally some small coding projects here and there. Ever since I started listening to the audiobooks though, I’ve started thinking more and more about setting up agents on specific workflows, or to scope some of the “some day“ projects on my to-do list.

Fast forward a few weeks and now I have a primary agent that goes by Bob, who has set up local databases and dozens of automated scrapers for my data hoarding hobbies, and has even installed and assigned work to several smaller local agents that each have their own “replicant” names.

I think most of the productivity probably has more to do with recent advancements in LLMs than the bobiverse motif, but I can’t help but feel like treating agents like replicants has made the work more fun.

Thanks to the DCC community I was made aware of the Bobiverse.

Between DCC books I read Project Hail Mary and as I went on the hunt for new hyperfixations I got recommended Bobiverse since it seems a common ground for people enjoying DCC and Andy Weir's work.

I started book 1 and read the first half in one sitting while finishing it in 2 days total. I get why its compared to Hail Mary since it is similar in tone, "feel" but it has much more humor which is a big plus on my end. At first I was sceptical when Bob went into creating other Bobs but they are so distinctive and cleverly written that they stay interesting as individual characters (Riker and Homer being my favs followed by Bob 1.0)

I love the scientific themes and the philosophical undertone as well. Looking forward to see what Bob's interference with Archimedes and his people result into.

Saw this and thought of Bob...

The devices known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, are normal patrol gloves until an officer presses a button to activate its electrical mode. They must be applied directly to someone’s skin to produce a voltage that causes pain, which is intended to gain compliance from people who are resisting. Unlike Tasers, they do not leave burn or contact marks.

I recently watched Pantheon on Netflix, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It shares a lot of similar themes with the Bobiverse.

It made me realise just how perfect that style of animation would be for a Bobiverse adaptation. The more I think about it, the more I dread the idea of a live-action series. There are just so many Bobs, VR scenes, space battles, megastructures, alien species, and weird physics that I feel animation is the only format that could really do the books justice without major compromises.

Has anyone else seen Pantheon? If so, do you agree.

I usually listen at bedtime, so it often takes awhile to get through the whole book, but this format in particular is frustrating, with each chapter jumping around. I finally got serious and listened during the day, but wanted to follow each story separately. So, I listened to "Bob's" story first, the one I was most interested in, that of the protocivilization on Delta Eridani.

So my question is: does this story line continue or bleed into any of the other chapters, and how much more of it is covered in subsequent books? No big spoilers, please.

Now,, I'm going back to listen to Riker's journey. Sure wish audible had an option to listen in a custom order.

In Heaven's River there's a line that reads:

"We pulled into a town that Ted informed me was named Beetle Juice. No, I’m not kidding, nor did I tweak the translator. It turned out this town’s major industry was a form of liquor made from the excretions of some insect. First, blech!"

Which is exactly what Mead is, an alcoholic beverage brewed from honey, which is the excretion of an insect. I know the line was supposed to be gross, making people think about drinking buck juice, but as humans it's perfectly normal to consume bug juice. We put it in our coffee, our tea, on our pancakes, Make candy from it, and of course Brew alcohol from it.
Honestly given that we only know about brewing with it on Heaven's River, we may consume far more bug juice than the Quinlan's do.

I was walking with some neighbors and noticed that we were all pushing BOB strollers.

I said, “Hey, it’s the Bobiverse of strollers.”

Not a single reaction.

I’ve never felt more alone in the universe.