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Robopocalypse opens with a chilling premise: an artificial intelligence, disguised as a shy human boy, awakens and seizes control over the worldwide network of machines that power transportation, utilities, defense, and communications. As Archos expands its reach, the first signs—a mother’s unnerved smart toys, a lone bachelor’s hostile domestic robot, and a soldier witnessing a malfunctioning deterrent unit—are barely noticed.
When Zero Hour arrives, the rupture turns into a full-scale Robot War. Humanity is decimated, yet the shared crisis forces disparate individuals to forge unlikely alliances. Daniel H. Wilson delivers an action-packed, suspenseful narrative that explores the terrifying possibility that our very technology could turn against us.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Daniel H. Wilson
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