Review: Robopocalypse - by Daniel H. Wilson (PhD)

Rating: 5
Husband: Loved it
Where I got it: Second Hand bookstore
Price: $6.99
Finished: Recently

Synopsys:

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.

My Review:

A friend recommended this book to me, and I had been long looking at it on the shelves reading the back cover over and over, but the price put me off and I always put it back.   I finally found it at the local second hand bookstore for the excellent price of $6.99 and snapped it up!

First off, I'm sad that I waited this long. It was worth the cover price at the bookstore, and it would have been an excellent "airplane read" for me.  I couldn't put it down. I bought it on a Saturday afternoon and I finished it on Monday night at 1:30am.

It is very much in the style of World War Z (one of my favorite books ever!! <3 me some zombie), with shortish chapers focusing on individual stories.  However, these chapters really start to blend together as the individual charaters start to converge later in the book.

The Husband loved it, I loved it.  If you like dystopic/post apocolypse fiction - I say give it a read!