It also serves to ground the reader, so that they do not feel detached from the high stakes nature of the final battle.Īs a result, the final battle is satisfyingly entertaining and does a decent job of wrapping up the book. This extended focus on the fragility of humans provides a nice groundwork for the idea of the ‘Others’, who think of humanity as a pests and plan to destroy the Solar System. Instead of forming bonds with individuals, he considers moving to a more ‘amorphous’ model of his lineage. She faces a difficult decision as her children do not want her to come back ‘alive’, and Howard must fight a tedious courtroom battle in order to claim her remains.īob’s second clone Will also has a hard time adjusting to the idea that all of Bob’s descendants are going to reproduce and eventually die of old age.

He spends the last few years of Archimedes’s life helping, guarding and taking care of him, all the while dealing with tribal conflicts that are a indirect result of his own interventionism.īob’s other clone Howard makes repeated attempts to convince his love Bridget to replicate, once her natural self has passed on. This is seen in the aging and subsequent death of Bob’s closest friend Archimedes, on Delta Eridani. The book revolves around how the Bobs reconcile the death of humans and their own immortality. The remaining stories feature the Bobs in other star systems, including those of Delta Pavonis, Eta Cassiopeiae and Omicron Eridani. There are two major plots: that of the original Bob in Delta Eridani and the ‘Others’ invasion of the Solar system.

Marking a much-needed return to form, this iteration brings back all the things I enjoyed about the first book, while taking its time to present a reasonable conclusion. Intended as a finale for the many plots that began and developed in the first two books, All These Worlds features an increased number of Bobs and Worlds, each with their own problems and personality quirks.

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