All These Worlds is third book in Bobiworld trilogy. Again book starts as next chapter of previous book. By this time there start to be some many Bobs it gets bit hard to follow. Main advancements in last book were Bobs’ androids and antagonist race The Others. Last book ended with The Others consuming solar system (not our) despite Bobs’ attempt to stop them. This book starts almost like it didn’t happen. I wonder if it is because Return of the Jedi starts with Jabba the Hutt and not with Empire and Darth Vader. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. All books have so much references to science fiction.
All These Worlds is most interesting of the three books. In first two books story drag. In third book everything starts to happen. Phasing of this trilogy is like Civilization game. At the beginning almost nothing happens and you mostly wait. At the end you have hard time following everything happening same time. Might have been good idea to spread all this along all three books. Now this is two books where little happens and one where too much happens. First two books advances story arcs only a little. This adds new story arcs and keeps old ones going on. To make this more confusing story arcs have similar elements. And no story arc really ends in previous books. They turn into new story arcs. It is hard to keep track of everything but I don’t think any colony was established without story arc with its problems.
Whole trilogy needed heavy editing. It is so full of everything. Concentrating on something would have helped a lot. Too many story arcs hurt the flow. Characters don’t develop into anything. I guess that could be explained by Bobs being software. But it makes the story just Bobs overcoming obstacles. This continues until the end of this book. There isn’t much surprise. It is pretty much what you expect except there is less of The Others than you expect. They are dealt with quite quickly.
There is fourth book which tells new story in Bobiverse. I will skip it. One reviewer said he had same problems with it that I with this but he liked the trilogy. I guess it means fourth book is even worse than the trilogy. Still don’t understand why this has so good reviews unless they are not real reviews. It is not the worst but only genuinely good part is the beginning of the first book until first Bob starts to create new Bobs. After that the trilogy is ok at best.