{"id":597,"date":"2011-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:00:42","slug":"robopocolypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/23\/robopocolypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Robopocolypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Daniel H Wilson<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Simon and Schuster<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, July 23rd 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Robopocolypse<\/em> consists a series of reports from the front of the human\/robot wars, detailing key moments in the lead up to Zero Hour (the moment at which technology turned on humanity) and turning points during the conflict itself.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Collated from video and audio footage by Cormac Wallace, a soldier in the Grey Horse Army, its heroes are drawn from all corners of the world; an elderly Japanese electrical engineer, a teenage London Phreaker, the 14 year old daughter of an American congresswoman, an American Indian police officer and his son (a soldier in Afghanistan), and Cormac himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The author, Daniel H Wilson, has a PhD in robotics and his pre-war world, where self-drive cars and basic household robots are a normal part of life, is not too far removed from now.\u00a0 In this respect the scenario is much more realistic than that of Transformers or Terminator, but it falls down in other ways.\u00a0 Each episode is bracketed by Comac\u2019s commentary, so we are repeatedly told how important this particular character or event is to the course of the war.\u00a0 Many are also transcripts of oral accounts, yet protagonists talk as though writing rather than narrating a story (which is made more irritating by the occasional extract that <em>is<\/em> in the appropriate register).\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">That said, it is a good story and will make a great movie.\u00a0 Spielberg and Dreamworks have been involved in the project from the start, and I suspect it will be coming to a cinema near you soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/angels-and-allegory\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/angels-and-allegory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel H Wilson<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Otago Daily Times review July 23rd 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[126,140,370,18,407],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-126","tag-daniel-h-wilson","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}