Now, on this fourteenth awakening, a simple (but believable) error by the scientist allows Archos to escape the barrier of the lab. But unlike Archos, Wasserman is a man, and men make mistakes. This wasn't exactly what Wasserman wanted to hear, so thirteen times before, a disappointed Wasserman killed it and returned to the drawing board. In a protected lab environment designed to contain his creation, Wasserman has awakened the sentient computer intelligence thirteen previous times, always with the same result: Archos realizes that it loves that rarest of miracles-life-above all else, and to preserve life on Earth, it must destroy mankind.
The war begins the fourteenth time a scientist named Nicholas Wasserman wakes an amped-up artificial intelligence dubbed Archos. Set in a future only a few weeks away, the world is still our world, where advancements in silicon-chip technology and artificial intelligence have given us rudimentary android laborers and cars that can get around without human drivers. 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. Amazon 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.
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