sci-fi Ongoing
Bobiverse
by Dennis E. Taylor · 5 books
He's buying the sequel
Why this series hooks him
The premise is so good it sells itself: a software engineer named Bob dies, gets his consciousness uploaded into a von Neumann probe, and wakes up in a spaceship. He's now a self-replicating AI with the personality of a Reddit nerd who's read too much science fiction. He builds copies of himself. They all have different personalities. It's the funniest hard sci-fi series written in years.
How to start
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Book 1). It's fast, funny, and short enough to finish in a long weekend.