Just finished For We Are Many

Finished this one today.

For We Are Many

Dennis E. Taylor

Read in 25 days

I’m actually super loving these weird little sci-fi books. He is not the most expressive writer, but the story is novel, and our protagonist is amiable.

He also does the work to plumb the depths of this high concept, pulling up genuinely surprising ideas and developments, often in the tiniest ways. For example, a Bob decides to clone himself to go on a suicide mission. Then the next chapter is the point of view of the clone, who because he’s just a pure digital copy of his progenitor from a few moments ago, can remember the decision to send himself on a suicide mission, and all of the rationale that led to it. So the Bobs just shrug at one another and get on with it.