Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award
and the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including The Watchman,
Chasing Darkness, The First Rule, and The Sentry.
Robopocalypse is as good as Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain or Jurassic
Park, and I do not invoke Mr. Crichton's name lightly.
Daniel Wilson.s novel is an end of the world story about a coming machine-
versus-man war. You know the reader's cliché: .I couldn't stop turning
the pages.? So shoot me--I couldn't. Started on a Friday afternoon,
finished Sunday morning, and I'm slow. My daughter finished it in a single
night, and then my wife. My wife hates science fiction, but she loved this
book.
Set in a future only a few weeks away, the world is still our world, where
advancements in silicon-chip technology and artificial intelligence have
given us rudimentary android laborers and cars that can get around without
human drivers.
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