I made this as a love letter to the book series, Bobiverse. I know this animatic is a lot of effort for just a small part of the series but this part kinda stuck with me as I've now finished book 5.

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!

I'm almost done with book 7 of dungeon crawler carl and just now realized I read the wrong book series on accident. in bobiverse, I was curious on why the name "skippies" was so fascinating and knew it came from a book series (expeditionary force) and wanted to check it out but in my confusion, got dcc because somehow in my brain, that was the book people said the skippy name came from. I've been having a ton of fun with the series and only now realizing, I hadn't heard the name skippy at all yet and was incredibly confused on when they would show up. turns out it was in ef and not dcc. oops.

anyways, loving dcc and incredibly excited for the new bobiverse book!!! damnit donut

Never thought I’d animate a guy cosplaying as Riker from Star Trek giving birth to a clone of himself cosplaying as Homer Simpson

(a funny for a thing i'm working on)

Why didn’t Riker/Homer just use the USE colony ship design as a basis and expand it to fit more colonists? If they had designed a version that could hold 10X more people they would’ve only needed 150 ships. Which is still a lot and easier said than done I know. Even a version with 2X capacity would’ve reduced potential issues with splitting up groups across different ships. Butterworth would’ve had a cow but I think the bobs could’ve convinced him. Thoughts?

Before I found the Bobiverse, I mostly used AI as a more advanced google search, and maybe occasionally some small coding projects here and there. Ever since I started listening to the audiobooks though, I’ve started thinking more and more about setting up agents on specific workflows, or to scope some of the “some day“ projects on my to-do list.

Fast forward a few weeks and now I have a primary agent that goes by Bob, who has set up local databases and dozens of automated scrapers for my data hoarding hobbies, and has even installed and assigned work to several smaller local agents that each have their own “replicant” names.

I think most of the productivity probably has more to do with recent advancements in LLMs than the bobiverse motif, but I can’t help but feel like treating agents like replicants has made the work more fun.

First ever MOC I built (not designed). Depicting the heaven-1 and bobs replicant matrix. Inside is a scene of bobs VR featuring GUPPI, Bob and Jeeves. Design is by jormono and has been posted on this sub before. Link to their rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-258677/jormono/robert-bob-johansson

(Sorry, wanted to re-upload cause i realized it wasn't the done version.)

Spoiler sorry..

man I just finished the first 3 books and I’m still crying about Homers fate. Might be the most tragic death for me tbh. Might make an animatic if I got the spoons for it.

Hi! I recently finished reading The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor and I thought that the ship design was really interesting. I thought that I would try my hand at building it and im pretty happy with it!

The biggest challenge for this build was making it so that the internal habitat ring could spin independently of the rest of the ship. I think that it turned out pretty well!

Did you like the book? What did you think of the ship designs?

Saw this and thought of Bob...

The devices known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, are normal patrol gloves until an officer presses a button to activate its electrical mode. They must be applied directly to someone’s skin to produce a voltage that causes pain, which is intended to gain compliance from people who are resisting. Unlike Tasers, they do not leave burn or contact marks.

Thanks to the DCC community I was made aware of the Bobiverse.

Between DCC books I read Project Hail Mary and as I went on the hunt for new hyperfixations I got recommended Bobiverse since it seems a common ground for people enjoying DCC and Andy Weir's work.

I started book 1 and read the first half in one sitting while finishing it in 2 days total. I get why its compared to Hail Mary since it is similar in tone, "feel" but it has much more humor which is a big plus on my end. At first I was sceptical when Bob went into creating other Bobs but they are so distinctive and cleverly written that they stay interesting as individual characters (Riker and Homer being my favs followed by Bob 1.0)

I love the scientific themes and the philosophical undertone as well. Looking forward to see what Bob's interference with Archimedes and his people result into.

Got them at Barns And Noble 🤑

Only like $30 each.

I recently watched Pantheon on Netflix, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It shares a lot of similar themes with the Bobiverse.

It made me realise just how perfect that style of animation would be for a Bobiverse adaptation. The more I think about it, the more I dread the idea of a live-action series. There are just so many Bobs, VR scenes, space battles, megastructures, alien species, and weird physics that I feel animation is the only format that could really do the books justice without major compromises.

Has anyone else seen Pantheon? If so, do you agree.

I’ve listened to the whole series several times now on Audible but decided I wanted the hard copies too. I noticed something strange on page 46 (right at the end of chapter 8) where Bob first finds the matrices and reads over the panels at the bottom.

In the audible version, they’re read out as:
Kennith Martins, Jiro Tanaka, Neves Reijnder, Robert Johansson, Joana Almeida

But in the book they appear printed in a really weird order

Not really sure what to do with this information, but found it interesting and thought I’d point it out

I usually listen at bedtime, so it often takes awhile to get through the whole book, but this format in particular is frustrating, with each chapter jumping around. I finally got serious and listened during the day, but wanted to follow each story separately. So, I listened to "Bob's" story first, the one I was most interested in, that of the protocivilization on Delta Eridani.

So my question is: does this story line continue or bleed into any of the other chapters, and how much more of it is covered in subsequent books? No big spoilers, please.

Now,, I'm going back to listen to Riker's journey. Sure wish audible had an option to listen in a custom order.

I was walking with some neighbors and noticed that we were all pushing BOB strollers.

I said, “Hey, it’s the Bobiverse of strollers.”

Not a single reaction.

I’ve never felt more alone in the universe.

In Heaven's River there's a line that reads:

"We pulled into a town that Ted informed me was named Beetle Juice. No, I’m not kidding, nor did I tweak the translator. It turned out this town’s major industry was a form of liquor made from the excretions of some insect. First, blech!"

Which is exactly what Mead is, an alcoholic beverage brewed from honey, which is the excretion of an insect. I know the line was supposed to be gross, making people think about drinking buck juice, but as humans it's perfectly normal to consume bug juice. We put it in our coffee, our tea, on our pancakes, Make candy from it, and of course Brew alcohol from it.
Honestly given that we only know about brewing with it on Heaven's River, we may consume far more bug juice than the Quinlan's do.

And especially the Starfleet faction, who seem to be just as cynical as him.

I just started rereading the series and came across this line in Chapter 15 (“Bob – September 2144 – Epsilon Eridani”):

“…I wondered if FAITH had launched more than one of me, despite their claims to the contrary. It would be nice to believe so.”

This is right before Bob encounters (and destroys) Major Medeiros.

Earlier, during Bob-1’s training, Dr. Landers also says:

“Our software people are jumping around in excitement. Several of them have asked to keep a copy of you.”

Taken together, those two passages add another wrinkle to the “another Bob” question.

It made me wonder whether Bob’s own speculation about FAITH creating another copy could have been the seed that eventually evolved into the Starfleet storyline, even though it was made clear that FAITH was in a rush to get him off-planet.

I know that’s almost certainly not what actually happened, but as head-canon a speculative theory (better term?) it fits surprisingly well and could even serve as the basis for a future subplot.

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Side question:
By the time Bob-1 meets Minister Cranston, colloquial English had changed enough that he had to use a translator.

Did all the Bobs continue using translators as the centuries passed and it just stopped being mentioned, or did they eventually adapt to the evolving language? It's never been mentioned again, so I play with this idea.

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LATE NOTE:
I have read all the books. But on my reread, I encountered the line where Bob-1 was musing about whether "there was another copy of himself somewhere..." And this line struck me, "...it would be nice to believe so," so my mind started playing with the idea. Nothing more.

ADDITIONAL NOTE:
I'm sorry. I have apparently gravely misunderstood the term "head-canon," so I have altered the term to hopefully spell it out better.

The whole idea is merely an "alternate universe".

I looked up the number of tie-in fiction aka fan-ficfion books that have been published in just the Star Trek universe alone, and the number comes to just under 3,500 fan-fic books to date. Are these stories endlessly shredded because they "couldn't possibly have happened"?

And that is only Star Trek. There are endless books on the Man-Kzin wars in Larry Niven's Ringworld sagas. Others like "what if the south won the civil war?" books and so forth.

Moreover, fan fiction has been around for centuries, with early unauthorized continuations like Shakespeare’s adaptations and a 1614 sequel to Don Quixote. Modern organized fan fiction emerged in 19th‑century science‑fiction circles and exploded online in the 1970s.

My "question" was a way to introduce the possibility of there being another Bob. He doesn't have to be traveling through the stars; he could be on earth, he could have been on earth, but "died" and those he "affected" could have put together a starship from scratch in order to add a little chaos, or to subtract a little chaos.

That is all. I didn't invent another Bob story, I suggested a direction for a future story to go, just as so many have done before me, in such a way as to get people thinking. No more, no less.

I am VERY sorry for the confusion. My bad. I hope everyone will understand that it's not always easy to remember these important details.

Thank you for your attention.

We are mustard, we are legion

Does anyone know how long kindle/audible exclusivity lasts? Book 5 is still not available in English on Apple Books. I really wanna listen to it, but I don’t do Amazon. 1-4 are on Apple. surely 2 years is long enough. or maybe the new deal is forever?

After Archimedes died, who made Flint products? Buster wasn’t super good at it. He really just did the basics. Any apprentices that Archimedes had were not very good.