Daniel H. Wilson
Audiobook | Pages: 347 pages Rating: 3.68 | 34556 Users | 4167 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Robopocalypse |
| ISBN: | 0385533853 (ISBN13: 9780385533850) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Robopocalypse #1 |
| Characters: | Cormac 'Bright Boy' Wallace, Takeo Nomura, Lurker, Nine Oh Two, Lonnie Wayne Blanton, Specialist Paul Blanton, Marcus Johnson, Mathilda Perez, Sergeant Jack Wallace |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2012), Endeavour Award Nominee (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2011) |
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In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late. When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.Itemize About Books Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse #1)
| Title | : | Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse #1) |
| Author | : | Daniel H. Wilson |
| Book Format | : | Audiobook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 347 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2011 by Doubleday |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Dystopia |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 34556 Users | 4167 ReviewsCrit About Books Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse #1)
http://staffersmusings.blogspot.com/2...Post-Novel + 39 MinutesThis account was transcribed by a certain book reviewer a few days after the books began their campaign against humanity. The reviewer was clearly suffering from post-literary confusion, but little did he know the impact he would come to have on the future of mankind.Narrator, ID#4857382I know I will not survive this review.I feel my teeth chattering as the Hardies throw themselves against my oak front door. I can hear their glueRobopocalypse takes a common-enough idea: robots take over the world, and turns it into some new, fresh and exciting. Our narrator Cormac "Bright Boy" Wallace starts at the end of the war, when humanity has just barely managed to put down the evil AI (no spoilers; we know the outcome of the war from page one) and then backs up to tell us how it all happened, sharing personal recollections and recordings kept in a "black box" by Archos, the AI who started the war. The format is a bit like World
Buddy read with Terry! Thanks Terry!Going to go right up the middle with 3 stars.This is a two book series, but one can clearly end here because there is an ending that can satisfy a reader without having to go on. I myself am not too sure if I will read the next one.I am honestly having trouble writing this review because there were many things I liked about the story but there were alot of things I felt were lacking. So I think I will just randomly jot down my thoughts and feelings
You may also read my review here: http://www.mybookishways.com/2011/04/...Every now and then I discover a new author, and I get really excited. This happened with Jonathan Maberrys Joe Ledger series and now with Daniel H. Wilsons Robopocalypse. Im not quite sure what I expected. Maybe just run of the mill postapocalyptic dystopian fare, with robots run amok? Well, in Robopocalypse, robots certainly do run amok, but run-of-the-mill it is not. Told in snippets of gathered intelligence by Cormac
Robot uprising, killing people all over the shop, with this kind of premise what could go wrong?Robopocalypse is often compared to Max Brooks' World War Z and the Terminator movie franchise for different reasons. The former comparison is because the story concerns a global attack on the human race by non-human creatures and is episodic structure. The difference is that the enemy of mankind in Robopocalypse is not a horde of homicidal robots but a single AI entity controlling masses of mindless
Robopocalypse takes a common-enough idea: robots take over the world, and turns it into some new, fresh and exciting. Our narrator Cormac "Bright Boy" Wallace starts at the end of the war, when humanity has just barely managed to put down the evil AI (no spoilers; we know the outcome of the war from page one) and then backs up to tell us how it all happened, sharing personal recollections and recordings kept in a "black box" by Archos, the AI who started the war. The format is a bit like World
clichepocalypse!!!! Maybe a robot wrote this bookI feel embarrassed to have been sucked into this hype machine and wish I had read something else. Oh well. Consider yourselves warned. There were a couple of chapters in this book that will probably make for good intense movie scenes, but, otherwise this reads like something a 12 year-old whose seen all the Terminator movies would write. I felt like the author was describing the movie he wanted this turn into, rather than writing a fully fleshed
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