History Literature / WeAreLegionWeAreBob

* EternalEnglish: Averted, but oddly so; 2149 English is nearly incomprehensible to Bob and modern readers. It's implied that FAITH deliberately modified the language in an attempt to limit seditious ideas, but no detail is given.

We are Legion (We Are Bob) is a 2016 Science Fiction novel of some acclaim, written by Denis E. Taylor, which asks the question "What would it be like to be a Von Neumann Probe?". It's also the first entry into the Literature/{{Bobiverse}}; the sequels are ''Literature/ForWeAreMany'', ''Literature/AllTheseWorlds'', and ''Literature/HeavensRiver''.

* TakingYouWithMe: The Brazilian ships have no autofacs, so have no capacity for re-armament or replication. Their only purpose is destruction and, following the initial nuclear exchange, begin bombarding China with extinction level asteroids.

* CloningBlues: Bob spends a lot of time mulling over whether he's alive, whether he's ''just'' a clone, whether he has a soul... Eventually decides that the mere act of pondering that means he's alive. Whether he's the same as original!Bob, he's '''his''' Bob, and that's good enough. All the Bobs remain squicked out by cloning, though, especially since the copies all end up so different.

* ShoutOut: Virtually every name the Bobs come up with (either for themselves or their findings) is a pop culture reference.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Pretty hard, but the use of subspace and SURGE drives keeps it from being diamond hard.

We are Legion (We Are Bob) is a 2016 Science Fiction novel of some acclaim, written by Denis E. Taylor, which asks the question "What would it be like to be a Von Neumann Probe?". It’s also the first entry into the Literature/{{Bobiverse}}; the sequels are ''Literature/ForWeAreMany'', ''Literature/AllTheseWorlds'', and ''Literature/HeavensRiver''.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: [[spoiler: After what they did the the Others, the Bobs agree that they have no regrets.]]

* FinalSolution: [[spoiler: The Bobs invoke this by name when discussing the Others, and follow through by making the Others' sun go nova.]]

He wakes up a hundred and thirteen years later as a digital copy of the original Bob, one of five replicants made from different people, all made in the hopes that one will be able to pilot a Von Neumann probe. Despite some unexpected political turmoil, Bob manages to survive Earth and escape the Sol system intact, then begins creating more Bobs. The Bobs then proceed to explore the galaxy, finding new worlds and life, find out what happened to earth while facing hostile probes and other threats.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Pretty hard, but the use of subspace and "surge drives" keeps it from being diamond hard.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Pretty hard, but the use of subspace and digital clones keeps it from being diamond hard. The blatant absence of vertical farms is also notable, as they would have pretty instantly solved most food related problems.

We are Legion (We Are Bob) is a 2016 Science Fiction novel of some acclaim, written by Denis E. Taylor, which asks the question "What would it be like to be a Von Neumann Probe?". It’s also the first entry into the Bobiverse; the sequels are ''Literature/ForWeAreMany'' and ''Literature/AllTheseWorlds''.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Pretty hard, but the use of subspace and digital clones keeps it from being diamond hard.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The Brazilian probes use explosive missiles, but Bob is worried about the substances exploding when built with his 3D printers. He considers using lasers, but dismisses them as inefficient due to power constraints, so he goes with guided non-explosive missiles called "busters" instead. They work by suicidally ramming the target at high speed.

* TheTheocracy: America elected a hyper-religious president in 2036. In addition to his blatant religious agenda, he had no political skill whatsoever, breaking laws left and right to appoint his hyper-religious idiot friends to key positions, claiming God would sort it out. This, predictably, resulted in a horrific recession, and the next president elected was an atheist. That drove the religious right into a frenzy, and they launched a successful coup, replacing the United States with the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony. By the time Bob is awoken, FAITH has dozens if not hundreds of factions fighting each other over dogma, and do far more damage to each other than their enemies. Bob manages to keep them satisfied long enough to escape in the probe.

* BulletTime: The Bobs can crank their frame rate up so high that milliseconds pass like minutes. They typically only do this in combat.

* ColonyShip: The bulk of Riker's plotline revolves around building colony ships [[spoiler:to evacuate the 15 million survivers of Earth's nuclear apocalypse.]]

We are Legion (We Are Bob) is a 2016 Science Fiction novel of some acclaim, written by Denis E. Taylor, which asks the question "What would it be like to be a Von Neumann Probe?". It’s also the first entry into the Bobiverse; the upcoming sequels will be ''Literature/ForWeAreMany'' and ''All the Worlds''.

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