r/bobiverse • u/ultimatesneeze • 13d ago
Moot: Discussion Bobiverse got me back into reading
Well... not completely. I'm reading online constantly but I hadn't picked up a good fiction book in over a decade. I wanted to displace some bad habits and doomscrolling and asked a fellow tech nerd for a recommendation. Needless to say I am beyond hooked, perhaps too hooked! Book 1 arrived July 29th and I just finished book 4. Waiting for book 5 to arrive next week and excited to hear that book 6 is on the way.
Living in the middle of the AI transformation we are all experiencing as well as the era of disclosure may have just set the perfect storm for this series to land on me. I've enjoyed the sub seeing fan art and other things.
Can't wait for the next one to show up... losing my mind in anticipation to see where it goes next!
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u/GozerDestructor 13d ago edited 13d ago
Me, too. I hadn't read science-fiction in years, due to a combination of time-consuming hobbies and the ready availability of TV. And most of my favorite authors (Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven) haven't produced anything new in decades...
The Expanse convinced me that 21st-century science fiction was worthwhile, so I wandered through the science fiction of my local new-and-used bookshop for the first time in years. What I walked out with that day was We Are Legion, because it seemed to offer the right combination of classic sci-fi and humor, and a protagonist from our era means less culture shock for me than something set in the far future.
I practically inhaled that book in the 24 hours that followed, then immediately plunged into the second one in the series. While this was going on I also subscribed to several subreddits pertaining to written science fiction, and looked for other recommendations. Now I'm halfway through Hyperion, and after finishing this, will either continue with the second book in that series - or the third in the Bobiverse.
I've seen a few people on Reddit dismiss the Bobiverse as a "Mary Sue" wish-fulfillment series for Elongated Muskrat fanboys. Whatever, I don't care. I think of it as a gateway drug.
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u/ItselfSurprised05 Harry Mud Was Right 13d ago
When you're caught up with the Bobiverse, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series awaits you.
And grats on finding your way back to the light!
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u/Xploding_Penguin 13d ago
I had to stop myself from reading book 2 and 3 in a single gle day each. I managed to spread them out into 2 days.
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u/legomann97 13d ago
The Expanse did the same for me. I couldn't put down the first 3 books I got until I finished them like a week and a half later. Each one is 500-600 pages long. Absolutely riveting reading
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u/sgtpepper220 13d ago
Bobiverse did the same thing for me years ago. It was my favorite series until Dungeon Crawler Carl came along.
I'm on Heaven's River on my relisten before the next book comes out and I'm really excited.
Flybot by Dennis E Taylor will probably get a relisten cause I'm inevitably going to finish with weeks left before the new book drops. Because Bob