Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when he realizes that Riker knows where he is and is about to drop a buster on him. The Bobs begin to develop their own names and personalities, and become different characters in their own right. Some return to Earth, to help what remains of humanity recover from the aftermath of the war, while others venture to new worlds, and encounter new forms of life, including one, the Deltans, who resemble primitive humans in ways that lead to some of the Bobs taking them under their care.

The safest place that he can go is in space by heading far away from the Earth at a top speed because the universe is already full of nastiness, and the trespassers simply make them mad. Point is, that’s when I really realized that I don’t think like most people. I’m fine with solitude. In fact, I get antsy when I’m around people for too long a period without respite.”United States of Eurasia (USE): all of Europe and most of western Russia, leaders in AMI technology and financial resources. Bob teaches Archimedes jujitsu during mating season. Archimedes hooks up with Diana. Marvin discovers preyed Deltan remains near Camelot. Alien Non-Interference Clause: Subverted. He interferes in Delta Eridani to save the Deltan race from extinction and eventually grows attached to the race and a few members in articular. Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets killed in a bombing shortly after Bob leaves Earth. Bob doesn't even get to say goodbye.

Bob wakes up in the distant future to find himself the subject of a study conducted under the auspices of a religious extremist government called FAITH. The ultimate objective of the operation is to place one of the revived minds aboard a deep-space probe, to be sent out to explore the galaxy. While Bob only gets limited information from the scientists conducting the operation, it soon becomes clear that political tensions on Earth—both within FAITH and elsewhere—are reaching a boiling point, and Bob is fortunate to have his mind sent off into the cosmos just as disaster strikes and full-scale nuclear war erupts. The Aloner: He finds interacting with other people to be largely annoying. Bobs can go for decades alone without any real trouble, though they usually break down and build a clone eventually. Mario got a double dose of this trait. And Bob will find out that the universe contains entities even more unfriendly than the competing probes. Truly Single Parent: Each new Bob is a copy of one of the Bobs that came before, making father/son and brotherly relationships obvious. The Bobs still notably avoid referring to each other that way, though.Above all I want to give praise to the audiobook since it has the exceptional and most believable voice actor I have ever had the pleasure of listening to, Ray Porter is by far the best I have heard after maybe two dozen audiobooks over the last few years. He is beyond comparison and I hope I am not mistaken by the next entry of the Bobiverse in March 2017. At one time, we thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient to get going. But as we’ve moved into the information age, we’ve come to realize that life is more about information than energy. Fire has most of the characteristics of life. It eats, it grows, it reproduces. But fire retains no information. It doesn’t learn; it doesn’t adapt. The five millionth fire started by lightning will behave just like the first. But the five hundredth bacterial division will not be like the first one, especially if there is environmental pressure. That’s DNA. And RNA. That’s life. …”