Views, reviews and controversy
I must admit, when I first saw Robopocalypse on the shelves of various local bookstores, my first thought was, “what a cheesy title!” I didn’t bother even picking it up, it was so obvious what the book was about. Hmmm, maybe it is not such a bad title after all. Then I heard that the book was to be made into a film, and my reaction was, “Hasn’t that already been done? I think there is something out there called The Terminator…” In other words, I was simply biased against the book. But there is a reason for
And delighted I was indeed to find that I just couldn’t put it down. Turns out, Mr. Wilson is one of those science fiction authors who actually knows something about science (he has one of those fancy PhDs and everything). The result of which was a completely believable scenario (once you accept the premise of a self-aware machine intelligence) that did not have me rolling my eyes in disbelief every few pages. And no annoying time-travel contrivances either.