ref:Art Station
The Bobiverse Series
The Bobiverse is one part Ready Player One, one part Multiplicity, one part Bicentennial Man and one part Real-Time-Strategy game.
My first exposure to the concept of Von Neumann probes came from Nick Bostrom’s SuperIntelligence wherein a single-minded Artificial Intelligence replicates itself by exploiting natural resources in an exponential expansion into the cosmos.
What if, instead of an AI: the Von Neumann probes were bootstrapped from the consciousness of your run-of-the-mill middle-aged loner-ish nerdy programmer?
The Bobiverse series is about the exploits of the Von Neumann probe descendants of Robert Johansson as they set up shop in distant star systems, mine resources, build out interstellar infrastructure and balance exploration of the cosmos with the exploration of sentience.
I give the Bobiverse series 5 out of 5 quarters.