Robopocalypse: A Novel

Daniel H. Wilson

Jun 2011 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

About this audiobook

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.
 
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. 
 

 
 

Ratings and reviews

Story: 3 stars, great story, but slow and disjointed Reader: 3 stars, decent performance, intense voice, not much emotion I appreciated this different take on the robot apocalypse. It was fun to explore the various scenarios the author set up and how characters responded to their environments. It took too long for the story to pick up and develop a plot, though. Even then, it was presented as a series of flashbacks, which kept interrupting the flow and bringing me out of the story. There were multiple story lines. I was interested to see how they would come together, but most didn't. They sort of petered out and ended with some exposition about how humans fared in the end. Overall an ok read.

A great book, Little Matilda and The Grey Horse Nation including Lark and Lonnie were charachters you grew to love and Stoic Jack, RIP, that one hurts hard RIP CPL. HECTOR RAMIREZ, I miss you so much my hermano from another madre! Ill be with you soon my bro; they want to piss away everthing you and all those who gave their life for these kids to cry about everthing without knowing true sacrfice like you did for your band of brothers We happy Few! USA! Bloody 1st

About the author

Daniel H. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where’s My Jetpack?, How to Build a Robot Army, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, and Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown.