Bobiverse
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Book Translations
In his latest State Of Things update Dennis mentions the printed book will release 120 days after the audiobook which would be roughly the start of the new year.
Does anyone here know if translated versions will release at the same time?
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Book 5 is currently set for release on September 5th 2024, Dennis isn't happy about it either
www.goodreads.com Soooo, any firm date yet on Bobiverse 5?... — Dennis E. Taylor Q&ADennis E. Taylor answered: “Soooo, any firm date yet on Bobiverse 5? Your (deleted) tweet has us worried”
Sorry for the disappointing news everyone. Looks like audible wants to hold it back until Q4 for some reason despite it being complete.
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Commmunity feedback thread
So, I'm new to the whole moderating thing and I'm looking for feedback from the community. What can we do to increase community engagement? Would you guys like to see weekly discussion threads? Book 5 speculation? Writing prompts based in universe? As the mod, what can I do for you to make this community better?
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Happy this exists here are some images
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I’m so glad this community exist here. I was worried I wouldn’t find it again after leaving Reddit. Anyway, here’s some of the covers from the audiobooks and some of the images.
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A Theory for Book 5
spoiler
Across all the books something that becomes obvious if you pay attention, but is never touched on directly, Is that there is replicant drift between the GUPPI units as well as the Bobs. There's different attitudes, some are flippant, some cooperative, and some downright disrespectful. Now lets take a look at something ANEC mentioned in heavens river:
"AI is not achievable through algorithmic refinement. It requires a process of simulated annealing to achieve." to which Bill replied: "So they're elvoving the AI?"
If you think about it the Bobs have been slowly annealing GUPPI with every generation and even leaving him some room to grow, slowly evolving him. My theory is that GUPPI will unintentionally become the first AI the bobs create. This would work well with the parallels the Bobiverse has with ExForce. Even borrowing the term "Skippies" from Skippy, the insolent AI that shares a lot of characteristics with several of the GUPPI's that don't yet have the ability to be outright transgressive and borderline maliciously compliant.
That's all I have for now, only Dennis and the editors know exactly what will happen but I'm curious to hear any other theories anyone else has.
