Do You Want to Live Forever? Discussing "We are Legion (We are Bob)"
Release Date: 06/12/2025
How Many Bobs Does It Take to Save Humanity? Discussing "For We are Many"
Sci-Fi Book Pod
In "For We Are Many" by Dennis E. Taylor, the Bobs are back—and they’re multiplying like caffeinated Tribbles! In this sci-fi book discussion on Sci-Fi Book Pod, your hosts Admiral Kandas Rodarte and Space Cadet 2nd Class Shane beam into the second book of the Bobiverse series, where dozens of cloned digital minds juggle missions to save a bickering humanity, babysit alien civilizations, and battle their own prime-directive-breaking impulses. It’s a speculative fiction podcast episode full of ethical conundrums, colony ships, rogue Bobs, and the eternal quest for decent coffee in the...
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Do You Want to Live Forever? Discussing "We are Legion (We are Bob)"
Sci-Fi Book Pod
"We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor is the topic of discussion in episode 001 of Sci-Fi Book Pod, co-hosted by Kandas and Shane Rodarte. Imagine waking up a hundred years after your death—not in a new body, but as software running inside a cold, calculating computer. No body. No coffee. Just your memories, your personality, and a mission you didn’t ask for. Now imagine duplicating yourself—again and again—each version exploring the stars, building space stations, bickering with your clones, and maybe, just maybe, trying to save what’s left of humanity. As Bob asks,...
info_outline"We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor is the topic of discussion in episode 001 of Sci-Fi Book Pod, co-hosted by Kandas and Shane Rodarte.
Imagine waking up a hundred years after your death—not in a new body, but as software running inside a cold, calculating computer. No body. No coffee. Just your memories, your personality, and a mission you didn’t ask for. Now imagine duplicating yourself—again and again—each version exploring the stars, building space stations, bickering with your clones, and maybe, just maybe, trying to save what’s left of humanity. As Bob asks, “How are you supposed to feel if you're forced to do what you would have done anyway?"
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Intro: What if you woke up as software?
01:00 — Why we picked We Are Legion (We Are Bob) to launch the pod
03:30 — Shane’s “no pew-pews” sci-fi preference
04:00 — Von Neumann probes, explained
06:00 — Bob’s moral dilemma and a post-apocalyptic Earth
07:00 — Best quote from the book about surviving dogma
09:00 — The factions launching their own probes
11:30 — The difference between Bob and the others: VR and coping
14:00 — Bob’s clones: not replicants, not twins, but evolving personas
18:00 — Why 3D printers are the real MVPs
20:00 — Compassion and donuts: Homer’s surprising hero arc
22:00 — Who this book is really for
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