Book Discussion and Book Exchange: We Are Legion(We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
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Please Note: This event is two weeks earlier than it would otherwise be, to avoid conflicts with the Christmas holiday. The venue and all other properties are otherwise unchanged relative to our normal book discussion events.
Additionally, we will be doing our annual book exchange at this meeting. If you would like to participate, please bring a science fiction, fantasy, or other speculative fiction book (new, used, or in any format), either wrapped or in a gift bag, and we will have a blind exchange among those who brought books.
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Description from Goodreads.com:
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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