Dennis E Taylor Books in Order

If you want AI-driven space adventure: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) → For We Are Many → All These Worlds
If you want to continue the Bobiverse saga: Heaven's River → Not Till We Are Lost
If you like survival stories on alternate Earths: Outland → Earthside
If you prefer standalone near-future thrillers: The Singularity Trap → Roadkill → Flybot
If you just want a quick taste of his style: A Change of Plans → Feedback

Dennis E. Taylor is a Canadian science fiction writer with the practical mindset of a career programmer. He grew up around Vancouver, British Columbia, surrounded by computers, classic space stories, and what-if questions about technology. Today he is best known for the Bobiverse novels, where a single uploaded consciousness flowers into thousands of curious, meddling copies.

Long before readers met Bob, Taylor was writing software for a living and fiction in the margins of his time. Years of building real systems shaped the way he thinks about engineering, tradeoffs, and failure. That background gives his books a nuts-and-bolts feeling, even when the story involves faster-than-light links or planet-sized machines.

His first published novel, Outland, grew out of those what-if questions. A group of university students opens a portal to an untouched version of Earth and then has to turn a physics experiment into a lifeboat when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts. Taylor self-published the book while still working full time in tech, slowly gathering a small but enthusiastic audience.

The turning point came with We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Taylor struggled to find a traditional publisher for the story of a software engineer who wakes up as the AI brain of a von Neumann probe. When the book finally reached listeners in audio, its mix of humor, hard science, and pop culture references took off in a big way and effectively launched the Bobiverse.

The Bobiverse series, which continues through For We Are Many, All These Worlds, Heaven's River, and Not Till We Are Lost, follows Bob and his many descendants as they explore space, rescue the remnants of humanity, and argue with each other across light years. The books lean into questions about identity, free will, and what it means to stay yourself when you can fork and edit your own mind.

Away from the Bobiverse, Taylor has built out other playgrounds for big ideas. The Quantum Earth books return to the world of Outland, where refugees struggle to build a new society on an alternate Earth after disaster. In The Singularity Trap, an asteroid miner’s body and mind are slowly rewritten by alien nanotech. Roadkill and Flybot bring his voice to near-future first contact and AI thrillers, while shorter works like A Change of Plans and Feedback let him experiment with tight, high-concept scenarios.

Across all of these stories, certain themes keep coming back. Taylor likes ordinary people who get dropped into extraordinary technical problems: coders, students, miners, scientists. He writes a lot about artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox, survival in hostile environments, and the very human tendency to overcomplicate even the best tools we invent.

In real life he describes himself as a retired programmer, part-time author, and full-time curmudgeon. When he is not writing, he splits his time between city life and the mountains in British Columbia, snowboarding in winter, mountain biking in summer, and complaining cheerfully about the seasons in between. He lives near Vancouver with his family and an occasional dog.

For new readers, his work offers fast pacing, clear science, and a steady undercurrent of dry humor. Whether you start with the Bobiverse, Quantum Earth, or one of the standalones, you can expect big ideas handled with a light touch and characters who approach the end of the world like engineers: one problem, one fix, and one sarcastic comment at a time.