Robopocalypse

English

ISBN: 0385533853

EAN: 9780385533850

Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / General/Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 06/07/2011

Synopsis: They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies???Now theyre coming for you. In the near future,at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archoscomes online and assumes controlover the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans a single mother disconcerted by her daughters menacing smart toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a pacification unit go haywire but most are unawareof the growing rebellion until it is too late. When the Robot War ignites -- at a moment known later as Zero Hour -- humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypseis a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us???and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years. From the Hardcover edition.

Awards: Alex Awards – null 

Robopocalypse

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.29 inches

Width: 6.39 inches

Length: 9.51 inches

Weight: 22.22 oz

Pages: 368