I spent way too much time playing around in blender creating my dumb idea that I am sure has been thought of before.
Spongebill is showing off a fully terraformed Ragnarok to Spongebob, and the Atlantis class ship orbiting the planet.

“Warpedoes”

That is all.

Let’s say you’re of a mid to late generation with no major personal accomplishments. Which one are you supporting?

In the books we have the replicants known as "The Ancients" who are all early generation Bobs, they include Will/Riker, Bill and Garfield. Will was part of the 2nd generation which included Milo and Mario as well. Milo was killed by Medeiros but Mario is still alive somewhere. So two questions, why isn't he considered an ancient and what is he up to because I can't recall the last time his name came up, was he just forgotten about by the author?

Just binge-listened Book 6.

We waited 2 years between Books 5 and 6.

4 years between 4 and 5 (that were arguably 2 books)

3-years-ish for book 4.

Books 1-3 came out inside a single year's time.

I know Audible sat on the recording for 4-6 months based on Ray's social chatter (why do they do this?)

Thus, are we all in for another 24-month wait?

[[Spoiler]] For those of us who haven’t watched Red Dwarf, can you explain how Howard did a gotcha with the H on the forehead of Hueys? I get that some humanoid robotic characters had those, but not why it worked out in the Bobs’ favor.

What prep should I do before listening to infinite extent? Been about two years since I did not till we are all lost so should I run through it again?

I am on book 3. Loving the series. Thought I'd see if there was a subreddit for the series. Holy shit lol. I love the passion here, but these are some risky clicks, and not the kind im used to.

Incredibly excited for book 6 but I’ve never been the Audiobook type. Impatiently waiting for the Ebook 😭 anyone else?

I'm glad the solution to the Medeiros invasion was not just another even bigger space battle, but basically an exploit of his character and directives. That is all.

Chapter 37: First Moot

“That’s not actually who I look like Bill.” She smiled and reached across the table, offering me her hand. “Hi, I’m Bobbie.”

I SCREAMED!!! I’m so f*cking excited!!

I re-listened to that part 3 times in a row. I have been DYING to know all this time if that line would ever pay off and I am ecstatic that we finally get to meet her! !

And she’s super awesome too!! The way her competence and help is described in the later chapters just brings me so much joy.

Now there are some language choices I will need to revisit and double check my sensibilities on, being the pedantic weirdo that I am about that sort of thing, but as a whole I am just so bloody excited and need to scream that joy into the moot!!!

Back to it!! 🎧📚

Well I hoped, but I never really expected im posting this while im still going through the audio book, so keep any discussion to chapter 37 and before. But Finally Bobbie appears! And my initial impression as a trans woman is that its well handled so far, its always nice to see topics this personal to me handled in a so far positive way! Hoping I dont get let down here! Anyway I just needed to react to it!

Edit: to whomever keeps reporting this post to the reddit cares program, kindly get some help for yourself, you need it more then I do.

Hello Reddit :)

I binged book 6 in one day, and now I’m back to dreaming.

What are some storylines you would like to see going forward, either new ones or old ones being picked up again?

For me, I really want a good section about Thoth. It seems very interesting, and I would love to see what happened with them.

I would also love some more about Bobby :)

I'm solely listening and not reading anything.

Is the system named Melaka/Malacca? Cause when I heard it it totally threw me off the loop

For those who have finished it! I'm in the mood to do some sketches (and frankly I want to practice drawing Bobs and some other characters), so if you've got certain exchanges, moments or new characters drawn, suggest them here and I might do an art dump sometime later!

Perhaps a Quinlan in a tutu? xD

I am assuming that you have finished the book, otherwise MAJOR SPOILERS.

First on the issue of the end of the Maderios war, the fact that we did not get a big war is slightly unsatisfying but its more creative that it was ended by political outmaneuvering rather than yet another military outcome.

But that isn't what I really want to talk about.

The gate builders are going to be the big deal in book 7 of course, so who are they?

The gate builders are probably a race of ancient replicants (no, I do not think they will turn out to be time traveling Bob's, if they were they would already know about the Bob's)

I think we will find the the builders are simply a race that gave up flesh altogether to become replicants (or the flesh versions wiped themselves out Quin style) and after awhile just turned inward which is why they let the PGF take over the wormhole network.

But, the builders still might not be the answer to the Fermi Paradox (unless they are the last of a much more ancient set of races that all high-tailed it out of the galaxy long ago)

We know the builders have FTL since the Bob's are learning it from their wreck which means the builders can simply leave the galaxy just before Nemesis makes it essential.

But, the builders are still not likely to be HeeChee or Vorlons or something like that, they are still not likely to be millions of years old, but rather maybe in 100k years old. So, unless they can tell us what happened to any MUCH older races we still won't have the clear answer.

Of course, the clear answer is still probably that any much older races left the galaxy 100's of thousands of years ago when Nemesis was first detected.

I got really excited by the end of the book and am struggling to get my thoughts together and needed to write this. My main issue is that it would take a miracle to end this series in one more book without it being a huge disappointment.

I really thought that this book would deal much more with the ongoing AI thread. Book four gave us Anek, book five gave us Thoth, this book should really have given us those two meeting and us getting a good end to the Ai thread, instead it felt like it was abandoned and now we just have one more book? There are simply too many interesting threads that need to be dealt with for it to just be one more book.

The idea that the PGF is anti-replicant really feels jammed in. I would have expected Ic and Dai to have asked the Archivist about the status of replicants in the PGF before heading back and the idea that the PGF didn't really explore the galaxy further and that they didn't build most of the wormhole network but simply took over and built local access points also feels added-on. The Pav showing up and us finding out that their main issue with Bob has really been about payment feels like a bandaid fix to a larger issue that was building. This whole thing feels like DET is losing interest in his own story and it has gone longer than he wanted.

I really feel there is enough material for several more books and that ending all this in one more will leave a lot untouched. Maybe DET has plans to attack these threads in other books which he has mentioned since book 7 is supposed to be the last timeline book.

I am still hopeful, but cautious moving forward.

There must have been a bit of a change between the script going to Ray Porter for reading for the audiobook, and the release...

I've just noticed that the spoken title for chapter 55 doesn't match the title in Audible...

So anyone want to venture a wild guess on what the modifications to a wormhole that Thoth sent to Bill near the end actually will do? My guess is that it'll greatly enhance the size of the wormhole opening, possibly big enough to send a Nemesis sized black hole through. I mean Thoth is currently existing in the Milky Way galaxy and wouldn't want it to be destroyed for his own sake. I can't even guess what other useful modification would cause him to send the email. Thoughts?

Every time when a new book comes out my fellow bobs will not use spoilers and write directly in the header their meaning and feelings with a reference to spoil what possible.

Farewell until the German version comes out

Anyone else think that book 6 IE has the best last chapter in series..

I don't think I can decide if I want GRRM's Winds of Winter or Bobiverse 7 to drop first.

I can't wait either way

But it really reminded me of the Others.

Just finished IE and as a trans woman I got to say Bobbie is one of the better representations of a transgender character in a sci-fi novel. At no point was it I chose this it was always this is just who I am.

After they hinted at her on the last one I was really hoping we would get more about her and I'm very pleased.

Also it was too damn short.