Book Review: Bobiverse Books 1-3 by Dennis E. Taylor ★★★☆☆

Like sticky popcorn, this is a moreish but ultimately unsatisfying set of stories. After I flamed out of Dungeon Crawler Carl, someone suggested I try this series. I can see why! It's campy sci-fi fun, with enough tropes to keep you chuckling and enough tension to keep you turning the pages. Bob's brain is uploaded to a computer post-mortem. Awoken in a dystopian future, he has to pilot a spaceship to strange new worlds, put right what once went wrong, and hoping The Force will be with him, always. Oh, and he repeatedly clones himself. Creating a universe populated with Bobs (a "Bobiverse" if you will) It's your standard "only I, a slightly geeky guy with lots of pop-culture knowledge, can save the world" fare which is beloved by slightly geeky guys everywhere who think they're smarter than all those normies just because they can recite the list of Hugo winners alphabetically. Like Ready Player One it throws in as many quips and catchphrases as the plot will bear. Unlike Cline's work,…