
Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson
~post by Salvador
One of my all-time favorite books during my 10 years at BookPeople would surprise most people. It’s the simple story of a robot uprising. More specifically, it’s about an artificial intelligence that becomes aware, escapes into computers around the world, then launches a worldwide attack on humanity using any machine or device with a computer chip to hunt humans down and kill them. Think cars and trucks running down people in the streets or elevators full of unsuspecting tenants plummeting to the basement. The book was Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson, perhaps the only author with a book in our store who has a Ph.D. in robotics.
I was pulled in by the first pages of Robopocalypse when one of the story’s heroes is about to be swarmed by hundreds of “stumpers” as he approaches the hideout of the psychotic A.I…
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