It’s December and the the new year is just around the corner. What better time than this to look back at some of this year’s best books, as well as some of next year’s most anticipated titles?
For the next few weeks, we at Suvudu will be sharing some of our favorites from 2011. After that, we’ll focus on what we think is going to make 2012 a great year for reading.
Today’s choice for best of 2011 is Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse.
Imagine a world where we’ve grown so utterly dependent on technology that we can barely do anything on our own anymore: a place where robots clean our homes, serve our meals, entertain our children and fight our wars. What would happen if all of our dependable robotic helpers turned against us at once? That’s the question that roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson answers in his debut novel Robopocalypse.
While it’s true that this premise bears some superficial similarities with the Terminator franchise, Wilson’s Robopocalypse shares none of the militaristic or messianic themes of James Cameron’s signature action franchise. Robopocalypse’s characters aren’t ubermenschen from the future: they’re backwoods sheriffs, otaku tinkerers and handymen, people bound together by a fight for survival against a world that would see them dead.
Robopocalypse takes us deep into the trenches of this war between man and machine, delivering an explosively cinematic storytelling experience that is not soon forgotten.
