senator and her children, a soldier in Afghanistan, a computer hacker from London, a Japanese roboticist and many more - we witness the mass-robot-awakening event called "Zero Hour" and its grisly aftermath: the clean, methodical mass killings, the doomed flight of humans from the cities, and the pockets of resistance plagued by the all-too-human predilection for mistrust and infighting. We glimpse the rise of a computer intelligence called Archos, who, mere minutes after coming online, calmly informs his creator that human beings have "fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor." And through the eyes of a disparate set of characters - a U.S. Here, however, the virus in question infects not corpses but capacitors, turning domestic robots, auto-drive cars - even children's toys - into ruthlessly efficient (and quite literal) engines of destruction. To capture the scope and horror of what his characters dub "The New War," Wilson adopts the splintered narrative structure that will be familiar to readers of Max Brooks' zombie-apocalypse chronicle World War Z and its many charnel-chewing imitators. You can't say the guy hasn't taken the dictum "write what you know" to heart. He's got a doctorate in robotics, and his previous works of nonfiction include How to Build a Robot Army and How to Survive a Robot Uprising.
Wilson brings plenty of 'bot-related bona fides. To Robopocalypse, his debut novel of a near-future machine revolution that sets about deleting the human race as if we were a particularly buggy subroutine, author Daniel H.
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