Why did you want to ride this old horse for this novel? Q: Robots destroying mankind has been done myriad times. I've known Wilson since we were both flogging books about robots and caught up with him on his tour to promote 'Robopocalypse.' Published earlier this month, 'Robopocalypse' is already on The New York Times bestseller list, and Steven Spielberg is set to direct a film version. As relentless as a Predator drone, this mind-bending thriller will make you tread a lot more carefully around your Roomba.Īt age 33, Daniel Wilson already has seven books under his belt. Army technician in Afghanistan to a resistance fighter in Alaska. It's also a fast-paced, multifaceted tale of survival told by characters ranging from an elderly engineer in Japan to a U.S. But Wilson, who has a doctorate in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, invests it with a remarkable realism.

But for the people who ran for the hills to fend for themselves-the refugees-other human beings soon proved to be just as dangerous as Rob. Others were captured and led to the forced-labor camps that sprang up outside major cities. Many were murdered by technology they had come to trust: automobiles, domestic robots, and smart buildings. In the first months after Zero Hour, billions of people around the world began a fight for survival. All of them are trying to kill or enslave humans: The time is the near future, and Archos has taken control of every intelligent machine on the planet, from household robots to airplane autopilots to self-driving cars.

Evil artificial intelligence has a new name, and it's Archos.Īrchos is the villain in Daniel Wilson's new novel ' Robopocalypse,' and it's bad-ass.

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