Robopocalypse

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Call Number: Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Wilson, Daniel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Wilson, Daniel	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.

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cool submitted by tcaldera97 on June 22, 2011, 2:30pm cool

Don't read if you hope to get to sleep submitted by Matt Hampel on July 15, 2011, 7:27pm Very fun and fast-paced, clearly written with the movie deal in mind. Definitely not for the squeamish -- Wilson describes exactly <i>how</i> the robots rise up. Towards the conclusion, the violence gets disappointingly out of control as the author attempts to raise the energy. Characters are only somewhat fleshed out, and a good opening to introduce psychological tension is missed.

Kitschy, Fun, Unsatisfying submitted by eli on July 22, 2011, 12:58pm This is a pretty good book, I certainly could not put it down, but it telegraphs and foreshadows much too much, struggles with third voices that are supposed to be documentary and are just very writerly, and doesn't leave enough for the twist. There are a few really great emotional notes that have lodged in my head, but they're drowned out by the somewhat unconvincing journey from the beginning of the book, which is about the end, and the actual end, which isn't really about anything.

It does indeed have movie deal written all through it, and the writing is pretty solid, and the story is fun and dark, but I'd rather read a Culture novel again. That far-flung world is ultimately more believable than this one, and as I think about this book, I realize that my favorite character (yubin-kun) has no lines.

Robots are the New Zombies submitted by Chris82 on July 28, 2011, 7:59pm This is an awesome book. Its about how robots rise up and take over the world. Although thats been done before in lots of other books and movies this book seems new and refreshing. It reminds me a lot of World War Z in the way it was written but it has more of an overarching story that that book. The only problem with it is that you kind of know how the book will end long before its over.

Okay submitted by zmclaugh on July 26, 2018, 12:21pm An interesting premise, but I didn't find the main character very compelling or interesting.

Highly recommended submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 9, 2023, 12:08pm David Gerrold says that in a good story, first the problem works on the person, then there’s a turnaround and the person works on the problem. _Robopocalypse_ does this beautifully.

It has a great plot and a great set of characters, held together by Cormac (something of a narrator). Multiple character threads slowly twine together to work on the problem of sentient robots who have declared war on humanity. It’s a brilliant book, brilliantly told. I flew through it, and already recommended it to someone I just met (who saw me reading, so I said, “Do you like sci fi? Then I strongly recommend…”). It’s really more speculative fiction (what could happen next from where we are *right now*) than what people think of as SF (it’s not space ships and aliens, and definitely not time travel or magical systems). It’s a robot that gets smart enough to wake up, and how humanity mostly lost but fought back in the scrappy ways we do that when push comes to shove. Highly recommended.