For We Are Many
Load Bearing
For We Are Many
Self-replicating machines are the premise and the drift between copies is what this volume spends, so the registered slug is exact and an entry is owed.
Guide building
Trope guide
Von Neumann Probe
Von Neumann Probe is a reader-facing story pattern in the Riley Locke vocabulary. This page currently gathers 2 books with published claims and shows the reason for each placement.
- Books
- 2 Published placements
- Load-bearing
- 1 Shapes the book
- Present
- 1 Meaningful but not organizing
- Genres reached
- 1 Across canonical genre bindings
1Load-bearingThe pattern helps organize the book’s core promise.
1PresentThe pattern matters, but the book is not built around it.
0Performs-onlyThe surface resembles the trope without fully delivering its usual promise.
Riley Locke definition
What “Von Neumann Probe” means here
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Books with published reasons
2 books use this trope
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For We Are Many
We Are Legion
Present
We Are Legion
Bob is installed as the mind of a Von Neumann probe, a self-replicating explorer, and launched into a sky that several other nations' probes also want.
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Tropes often found nearby
These are co-occurrences across the books above, not claims that the terms are interchangeable.