Finally, all my love to Anna and Cora.
About the Author
Daniel H. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of such works of nonfiction as How to Survive a Robot Uprising. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter.
Also by Daniel H. Wilson
A Boy and His Bot
Bro-Jitsu
Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
How to Build a Robot Army
Where’s My Jetpack?
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Daniel H. Wilson
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company for permission to reprint an excerpt from “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” from The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan, copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan.
All rights reserved.
Jacket design by Will Staehle
Jacket image by Giimann courtesy of TurboSquid.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard)
Robopocalypse : a novel / Daniel H. Wilson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Robots—Fiction. 2. Artificial intelligence—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3623.I57796R63 2011
813′.6—dc22 2010043134
eISBN: 978-0-385-53386-7
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