Where to Start with Dennis E. Taylor
- Best entry point → We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Best standalone → Roadkill
- Start the Quantum Earth series → Outland
- What readers keep coming back to → For We Are Many
- Highest rated by readers → All These Worlds (Bobiverse #3)
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All These Worlds
Bobiverse • Book 3
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Taylor concludes his Bobiverse trilogy as Bob's clones face their greatest challenge: ancient aliens bent on destroying every thinking species they encounter.
★ 4.40 Goodreads (65.4K ratings) -
For We Are Many
Bobiverse • Book 2
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Bob's AI copies have spent forty years searching for habitable worlds, but now face system-wide civil war and an alien species that wants humanity extinct.
★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K ratings) -
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Bobiverse • Book 1
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Bob's consciousness gets uploaded into a space probe, where he discovers he can replicate himself and must find new worlds for humanity. Taylor turns existential horror into comedy gold.
★ 4.26 Goodreads (128.3K ratings) -
Heaven's River
Bobiverse • Book 4
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Missing Bobiverse clone Bender disappeared over a century ago—now Bob organizes an expedition to find him inside a colossal alien ring world.
★ 4.28 Goodreads (37.5K ratings) -
Not Till We Are Lost
Bobiverse • Book 5
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Post-Starfleet War, the Bobs no longer gather as one happy family, and their scattered existence makes them vulnerable to a challenge that could end everything.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (19.1K ratings) -
Outland
Quantum Earth • Book 1
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Physics students accidentally create a portal to an alternate Earth just as the Yellowstone supervolcano threatens civilization. Taylor balances hard science with adventure storytelling.
★ 4.10 Goodreads (11.8K ratings) -
The Singularity Trap
Bobiverse series
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Taylor spins a standalone tale of asteroid miners who stumble onto alien technology, turning a routine salvage operation into humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
★ 4.05 Goodreads (14.7K ratings) -
Roadkill
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Jack Kernigan's post-MIT failure launches him into cosmic significance when otherworldly forces threaten Earth. Taylor trades the Bobiverse's scope for intimate character work and small-town heroics against impossible odds.
★ 4.11 Goodreads (6.9K ratings) -
Earthside
Quantum Earth • Book 2
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Young scientists in alternate-Earth Rivendell become humanity's last hope after Yellowstone's super-eruption ends modern civilization. Taylor balances apocalyptic stakes with characteristic wit.
★ 4.05 Goodreads (5.5K ratings) -
Flybot
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Physicist Philip Moray's routine day explodes when mysterious technology and devious AI upend his world—Taylor combines scientific speculation with adventure storytelling.
★ 4.04 Goodreads (3.4K ratings) -
Feedback
Audible Original Stories
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A team of scientists tries to alter the past, only to find their historical rewrites trap them in a repeating cycle with an ending they never anticipated.
★ 3.84 Goodreads (3.3K ratings)