We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor was the 107th official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.
Reading period: Apr 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2018
How/Why was this book chosen: It won a March Madness style knockout poll.
| Round 1 |
Sword Match 1 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 222 votes |
63.2% |
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129 votes |
36.8% |
All the Crooked Saints | Maggie Stiefvater |
|
351 |
Total | ||
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Sword Match 2 |
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172 votes |
51.5% | Theft of Swords | Michael J. Sullivan |
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162 votes |
48.5% | Jade City | |
|
334 |
Total | ||
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Sword Match 3 |
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| 161 votes | 46.8% | ||
|
183 votes |
53.2% | Gail Carrier | |
|
344 |
Total | ||
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Sword Match 4 |
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168 votes |
49.6% | Midnight Riot | |
| 171 votes | 50.4% | Shades of Milk and Honey | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 341 | Total | ||
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Laser Match 1 |
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220 votes |
64.5% |
We are Legion (We are Bob) |
Dennis E. Taylor |
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121 votes |
35.3% |
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet | Vandana Singh |
| 341 | Total | ||
|
Laser Match 2 |
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184 votes |
54.0% | Autonomous | Annalee Newitz |
| 157 votes |
46.0% |
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|
341 |
Total | ||
|
Laser Match 3 |
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| 163 votes | 47.5% | Six Wakes | Mur Lafferty |
| 180 votes | 52.5% | ||
|
343 |
Total | ||
|
Laser Match 4 |
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|
179 votes |
52.2% | ||
| 164 votes |
47.8% |
The Sirens of Titan | |
| 343 | Total |
| Round 2 |
Sword Match 1 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 162 votes | 50.3% |
The Way of Kings |
Brandon Sanderson |
| 160 votes | 49.7% | Theft of Swords | Michael J. Sullivan |
| 322 | Total | ||
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Sword Match 2 |
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161 votes |
53.7% |
Soulless |
Gail Carrier |
| 139 votes | 46.3% | Shades of Milk and Honey | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 300 | Total | ||
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Laser Match 1 |
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| 168 votes | 54% |
We are Legion (We are Bob) |
Dennis E. Taylor |
| 143 votes | 46% | Autonomous | Annalee Newitz |
| 311 | Total | ||
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Laser Match 2 |
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| 174 votes | 55.9% |
Consider Phlebas |
Iain M Banks |
|
137 votes |
44.1% |
Oryx and Crake |
Margaret Atwood |
| 311 | Total |
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Sword Semi-Final |
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|---|---|---|---|
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192 votes |
49.6% |
The Way of Kings |
Brandon Sanderson |
|
195 votes |
50.4% |
Soulless |
Gail Carrier |
| 387 | Total | ||
| Laser Semi-Final | |||
| 214 votes |
56.8% |
We are Legion (We are Bob) |
Dennis E. Taylor |
|
163 votes |
43.2% |
Consider Phlebas |
Iain M Banks |
| 377 | Total |
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Final |
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|---|---|---|---|
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133 votes |
40.4% |
Soulless |
Gail Carrier |
|
196 votes |
59.6% |
We are Legion (We are Bob) |
Dennis E. Taylor |
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329 |
Total |
Sword & Laser Goodreads Group Discussion of We are Legion (We are Bob)
We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor[]
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.
External Link: Other books in the Bobiverse Series
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