We Are Legion (We Are Bob) — Special Edition

There were three questions that bothered me. Was I conscious? Could I really consider myself alive? And was I still Bob?

Bob Johansson had a plan. After selling his software company, a comfortable retirement awaited him. And, if the cryogenic laboratory that froze his head is successful, an even longer retirement in the distant future, when his frozen corpse is reanimated. Everything seemed to be going wonderfully for Bob. That is, until he was hit by a car while crossing the street.

A century later, Bob wakes up not in a utopia, but as state property on an Earth on the brink of war. Having lost all his rights while frozen as a head, his consciousness was converted into an artificial intelligence destined to pilot a self-replicating Von Neumann probe in search of new habitable worlds. It is not the ideal scenario, but refusing means being switched off for good. Upon accepting, Bob discovers that space will not be all that peaceful: several nations are fiercely competing for the same worlds — and they play dirty.

With Earth in turmoil, space may actually be the safest place for Bob. But the government forgot to mention that he is not alone... Using his new AI capabilities and Von Neumann technology, he does what any engineer would do: he creates more Bobs — and a virtual cat — and sets off to save Humanity before it is too late.

For fans of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, part space adventure, part philosophical journey, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is a captivating and hilarious exploration of the pleasures and dangers of artificial intelligence, the wonders of space, and everything that may await us out there.