Bobiverse

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A place to discuss the Bobiverse book series by Dennis E. Taylor

Click Here go to Dennis' "Status Of Things" page for the latest news on Book 5 of the Bobiverse series.

Credit to Reddit User geuis for the icon image

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submitted 8 months ago by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
 
 

We already knew the September release date, nothing has changed on that front.

But, There are a few other interesting things. Mainly We're likely to see at least 5 more bob books but that's subject to change.
And Roadkill 2 is coming!!

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Book 5 and Spoilers (self.bobiverse)
submitted 10 months ago by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
 
 

With "Not Till We Are Lost" likely to release sometime in the next ~60 days or so It's probably time to discuss spoilers leading up to and following release.
So for one, There will be a discussion mega-thread, but there won't be any rules discouraging posts for anyone who wants to discuss anything specific, which brings us to rules for posts.
I'm going to keep it relatively short and simple here as it's mostly common sense.
No Spoilers in post titles
This should be a given but I'm sure someone still needs to hear it.
Use spoiler tags in post body
Yes, you have to click on the post to see the post body in most cases, But some apps and instances show a preview of the post body text and it can be visible to people who didn't intend to view the post.

These rules will remain in effect leading up to release (samples that may be released before the book count as spoilers) and for 14 days after the release.

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In his latest State Of Things update Dennis mentions the printed book will release 120 days after the audiobook which would be roughly the start of the new year.

Does anyone here know if translated versions will release at the same time?

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Sorry for the disappointing news everyone. Looks like audible wants to hold it back until Q4 for some reason despite it being complete.

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Final edits (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by SurrealRaven to c/bobiverse
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So, I'm new to the whole moderating thing and I'm looking for feedback from the community. What can we do to increase community engagement?
Would you guys like to see weekly discussion threads?
Book 5 speculation?
Writing prompts based in universe?
As the mod, what can I do for you to make this community better?

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I’m so glad this community exist here. I was worried I wouldn’t find it again after leaving Reddit. Anyway, here’s some of the covers from the audiobooks and some of the images.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse
 
 

spoilerAcross all the books something that becomes obvious if you pay attention, but is never touched on directly, Is that there is replicant drift between the GUPPI units as well as the Bobs. There's different attitudes, some are flippant, some cooperative, and some downright disrespectful.
Now lets take a look at something ANEC mentioned in heavens river:

"AI is not achievable through algorithmic refinement. It requires a process of simulated annealing to achieve."
to which Bill replied:
"So they're elvoving the AI?"

If you think about it the Bobs have been slowly annealing GUPPI with every generation and even leaving him some room to grow, slowly evolving him. My theory is that GUPPI will unintentionally become the first AI the bobs create. This would work well with the parallels the Bobiverse has with ExForce. Even borrowing the term "Skippies" from Skippy, the insolent AI that shares a lot of characteristics with several of the GUPPI's that don't yet have the ability to be outright transgressive and borderline maliciously compliant.

That's all I have for now, only Dennis and the editors know exactly what will happen but I'm curious to hear any other theories anyone else has.

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submitted 1 year ago by Chainweasel to c/bobiverse