My wife hates science fiction, but she loved this book. My daughter finished it in a single night, and then my wife. Started on a Friday afternoon, finished Sunday morning, and I'm slow. You know the reader's cliché: “I couldn't stop turning the pages”? So shoot me-I couldn't. Crichton's name lightly.ĭaniel Wilson’s novel is an end of the world story about a coming machine-versus-man war. Robopocalypse is as good as Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park, and I do not invoke Mr. Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award and the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including The Watchman, Chasing Darkness, The First Rule, and The Sentry. Kevin Nguyen Guest Reviewer: Robert Crais (A film adaptation is already in pre-production, with Steven Spielberg in the director's chair and a release date slated for 2013.) Robopocalypse may not be the most unique tale about the war between man and machine, but it's certainly one of the most fun. Wilson certainly owes more to Terminator than he does to Asimov. The book isn't shy about admitting to its influences, but author Daniel H. The war is told as an oral history, assembled from interviews, security camera footage, and first- and secondhand testimonies, similar to Max Brook's zombie epic World War Z.
Robopocalypse is a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that makes a strong case that mindless fun can also be wildly inventive. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īmazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011:In the not-too-distant future, robots have made our lives a lot easier: they help clean our kitchens, drive our cars, and fight our wars-until they are turned into efficient murderers by a sentient artificial intelligence buried miles below the surface of Alaska. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. At Zero Hour-the moment the robots attack-the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. Controlled by a childlike-yet massively powerful-artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H.
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