{"id":18050,"date":"2021-09-25T21:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:51:34","slug":"heavens-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/heavens-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven’s River"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Don’t ask me, Bob. Replicant drift seems to be accelerating. I think we’re approaching fifteen to twenty generations, and it’s no longer just a matter of enhanced or suppressed attributes of Original Bob. The differences are accumulating, and some clones are going in completely new directions.”<\/p>\n

Heaven’s River<\/strong> by Dennis E. Taylor, published in 2020<\/p>\n

There are thousands of Bobs in the galaxy and they’re all descended from the original replicant, a computer who was replicated from a human who lived in the 21st century. One of the Bobs, Bender, took off and was never heard from again. Now Bob is mounting a mission to find him. Bob hypothesizes that Bender found something interesting and deviated from his plan — then he finds a system with a megastructure.<\/p>\n

This is the sequel to All These Worlds<\/strong><\/a>. It’s got the same great Bob storyline and Bob humour.<\/p>\n

“Topopolis” is my new favourite word.<\/p>\n

It’s about aliens who are in a megastructure but it’s sealed and they don’t have a lot of technology. It’s about dealing with beings who have different ideas about how the galaxy should be run.<\/p>\n

I’ve read 4 books by Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Don’t ask me, Bob. Replicant drift seems to be accelerating. I think we’re approaching fifteen to twenty generations, and it’s no longer just a matter of enhanced or suppressed attributes of Original Bob. The differences are accumulating, and some clones are going in completely new directions.” Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor, published in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,150,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-new-words","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18053,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions\/18053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}