"Waking up after death wasn't on Bob Johansson's bucket list. But here he is, four decades later, inhabiting the mind of a sentinent computer and piloting a self-replicating space probe, It was supposed to be a dream gig--explore the cosmos, find nw worlds, repeat. Instead, everything has gone spectacularly off-script. Humanity is hanging on by a thread after a devasting war wiped out 99.9 percent of the human race The planet is spiraling into nuclear darkness, extremist groups are fighting over what scraps of civilization remain, and rogue Brazilian probes are doing their best to annihilate everything in their path. And the Bobs have encountered a terrifying alien species with one very straightforward view of other forms of life: food. Bob never signed up to be a hero, and he certainly didn't expect to play God to a fledgling alen civilization. Now, he faces the ultimat question: Can a scattered army of digital copies, outnumbered and outgunned, outsmart extinction itself?"--