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SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Discuss Fiasco by Stanisław Lem in the comments below. If you have any book suggestions for the upcoming poll, feel free to add those.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is the first book of the "Bobiverse" series by Dennis E. Taylor:

Dennis E. Taylor is a Canadian novelist and former computer programmer known for his large scale hard science fiction stories exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the human condition.

While working at his day job as a computer programmer, Taylor self published his first novel and began working with an agent to try and publish his second novel We Are Legion. However Taylor still had difficultly getting any publishing house to take on his work, eventually publishing it through his agent's in-house publishing arm. An audiobook rights deal with Audible was also reached and once recorded, We Are Legion became one of the most popular audiobooks on the service and was awarded Best Science Fiction Audiobook of the year.

[...] In October 2018 Taylor was added to the X-Prize Foundation Science Fiction Advisory Council as a "Visionary Storyteller". This group of accomplished science fiction authors help advise the X-Prize team on envisioning the future.

Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho! • Foundation • The Three-Body Problem • Snow Crash • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:04PM (4 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:04PM (#813421) Homepage Journal

    May I recommend Too Far by Rich Shapiro?

    An amazing blend of reality and fantasy verging on poetry.

    My son gave me a copy. I was spellbound from the first page.

    A Goodreads reviewer described it as "two six-year-olds ... take refuge from their turbulent homes by exploring the mysterious woodland beyond."

    I won't quote more of that sentence because it contains spoilers. Take it form me -- only read the rest of that sentence after you have read the book.

    -- hendrik

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:05PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:05PM (#813422) Homepage Journal

    s/form/from/

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:13PM (#813427)

    The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
    by Ben Shapiro

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:12AM (#813632)

    2.86 · Rating details · 975 ratings
    It seem too me your opinion about this book is a lonely one.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:54PM (#813741)

      And the guy is a Nazi.