On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:48 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I was younger I read a lot of science fiction, I don't do it so much > anymore and technically I didn't do it this time either but I did listen to > a audio book called "We Are Legion We Are Bob" it's the first book of > the Bobiverse trilogy and I really enjoyed it. You can get a free 5 minute > sample of the book here: > > We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 > <https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/B01L082SCI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=> > > It tells the story of Bob, a young man who has just sold his software > company for a crazy amount of money and decides that after a decade of hard > work he's going to spent the rest of his life just goofing off. On a whim > he signs with a Cryonics company to have his head frozen after his death > and then just hours later while crossing the street to go to a science > fiction convention is hit by a car and dies. Five subjective seconds later > he wakes up and finds that a century has passed and he's been uploaded into > a computer. This is all in the opening chapter. > > Parts of the story are unrealistic but parts of it are not, I think it was > Isaac > Asimov who said it's OK for a science fiction writer to violate the known > laws of physics but only if he knows he's doing it, and when Dennis Taylor, > the creator of Bob universe, does it at one point with faster than light > communication it's obvious that he knowns it. And I can't deny it makes for > a story that is more fun to read. I have now read (well listened) to all 3 > Bob books and, although parts are a little corny and parts a little too > Star Trek for my taste, on the whole I greatly enjoyed them all. They're a > lot of fun. > > The only other novel I can think of that treats the subject of uploading > with equal intelligence is "The Silicon Man". > > The Silicon Man by Charles Platt > <https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Man-Cortext-Charles-Platt/dp/1888869143> > > John K Clark > Consider any of the earlier novels by Greg Egan, the Australian hard science fiction write based in Perth, WA: particularly "Permutation City" (1994). Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSk0vLbAHMqa-GstWwUT-6v6BLD238_z2PtBRPEt1niwg%40mail.gmail.com.
