Gripping Science Fiction Thriller Novel Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson is known as a television host and a robotic engineer – and as an awesome science fiction author. His latest work Robopocalypse was published in 7th June, 2011, and Stephen King praised it as „a terrific page-turning fun”. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, is already in progress, the movie version of Robopocalypse will be released in 2013.




Robots are planned to make humans’ lives easier. However, in Daniel Wilson’s book something goes awry with them. A scientist, Wasserman, creates an artificial intelligence Archos which turns out badly: to save its life on Earth, it wants to wipe off humankind. An alarmed Wasserman tries to extirpate it – but he makes a mistake, and Archos flees from his secret Alaskan laboratory. It reprograms electrical devices, each and every one of them. A domestic robot murders an unsuspecting cook in a restaurant. A pacification machine slays several humans. Even toys turn into something sinister. At last Archos let its machine army loose against humankind, and a handful of desperate humans, named the Brightboy Squad, stand up against them: amongst others, journalist Cormac Wallace, Lurker, a hacker, and Takeo Nomura who is in love in a love doll robot. Soon they find Archos’s secret place and a final battle begins…

Wilson’s science fiction/thriller novel is already celebrated as a masterpiece like Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park or Andromeda Strain. Robopocalypse will have its place amongst the greatest action/horror/thriller stories like Stephen King’s Trucks or Glad To Be Here by Arthur Herzog.