![]() ![]() That its events are scientifically plausible makes them all the more frightening." "Wilson's training as a roboticist makes accepting a ubiquitous robot presence natural to the author it also helps him imagine and describe some amazing machines, efficient, logically designed and utterly inimical to human life. It's especially refreshing to read an end-of-the-world novel that's actually self-contained, that doesn't require the investment in two or three more thick volumes to deliver the apocalyptic goods." ![]() Robopocalypse is a well-constructed entertainment machine, perfect for summer reading. Science fiction has been grappling with the possibility of traitorous computers and mutinous androids for much of its history, but Wilson has devised a way to put an original spin on the material. " presents a doomsday scenario more plausible than most. ![]() Wilson's taut prose and the imaginative scope of his story make him a worthy successor to the likes of Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov." A fast-paced, engrossing page-turner that is impossible to put down. "An Andromeda Strain for the new century, this is visionary fiction at its best: harrowing, brilliantly rendered, and far, far too believable." Wilson has terrific timing in building a page-turner around the perils of technology's advance into our lives." ![]() "An ingenious, instantly visual story of war between humans and robots." ![]()
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