We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Amazon PROP POD)

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The first novel in the blockbuster space exploration series from Dennis E. Taylor about a man who reawakens after a century to discover his consciousness is being held captive as an AI in a theocracy with a mission he can’t refuse—find and claim a new habitable planet to save humanity before it’s too late. 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.

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Is We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Amazon PROP POD) appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

This comedic hard sci-fi adventure features a protagonist who dies and is uploaded as an AI probe exploring space. Contains moderate violence from space conflicts and alien encounters, with some existential themes about consciousness and autonomy.