For We Are Many is the second "Bobiverse" novel, about the adventures of a gaggle of 22nd-century computer programs based on the 21st-century human, Bob. In We Are Legion, Bob was killed in a car accident, frozen, and woken up as a computer program controlling a Von Neumann probe just before the Earth descended into nuclear war. In the two novels, Bob and his "replicants" help out humanity and a pair of extraterrestrial races, the Pavs and the Deltans.
The "Bobiverse" is a new series that I'm very excited about. If Dennis E. Taylor writes 10 more books in this series of roughly equal quality, I'll read all 10. Each replicant of Bob has its own personality, and there are a number of stories going on at once, the most pressing of which is the presence of the Others, a race of beings building a Dyson sphere by raiding all nearby systems for food and metals.
For We Are Many presents a unique answer to the Fermi Paradox, which states that there is a high probability of extraterrestrial life but no evidence of it. That answer takes the form of a communication from the Others regarding how they follow radio signals to find planets with life on them: "food announces itself."
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