![]() ![]() After all, in his nonfiction treatise “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” (2005), Wilson was a deadpan sci-fi genius. I expected much more from this witty robotics expert with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. ![]() God help the actors - or avatars - who have to deliver these lines. That transition won’t be hard because the short chapters of “Robopocalypse” already read like a series of rough sketches for set designers and animators. Even before Wilson finished inputting his novel, Steven Spielberg bought the film rights and started drafting the storyboard. Even by the cornball standards of the original “Battlestar Galactica,” this is a frakkin’ disaster, a literary version of Windows Me - much hyped but prone to crash.Īs with the inevitable robot rebellion, though, there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Wilson’s novel about computers gone mad to be a work of Proustian sophistication, but the real surprise is what a groaner it is. With a title like “Robopocalypse,” you don’t expect Daniel H. ![]()
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