"Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5" by Dennis E. Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Till-Are-Lost-Bobiverse/dp/1668223457/

Book number five of a five book space opera series. I read the well
printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published
by Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency in 2025. I will purchase and read
any future books in the series. The author states on his website that
book six is at the editor and he is writing book number seven now. The
author also stated that Universal has optioned the series but no details
due to a NDA.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward
to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies
to watch. So it?s a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing
the street. His family freezes him for future healing.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared
to be without rights, and he is now the property of the State. He has
been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling
A.I. in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes
are high, no less than first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he?ll be switched off and they?ll try again with someone else.
If he accepts, he becomes a prime target for sabotage. There were at
least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched
first, and they play dirty. Then the nuclear war over Earth threw the
planet into a severe ice age and Bob's space ships moved much of the population to space stations and other star systems.

Bob's descendants are now over 10,000 with up to 24 generations. They
are post the Starfleet war in which a group tried to take over all of
the descendants and enforce the Prime Directive. Their physical AIs are
up to 100 light years away from Sol. Each of the AI's is a little
different from Bob due to replicative drift. Many of them have formed
groups with wildly differing goals. And some of these groups are
violent, especially about continued contact with human beings and other intelligent species.

The author has a website at:
http://dennisetaylor.org/

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (6,002 reviews)

Lynn

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