Reddit reviews Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Read Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. Outstanding book set in basically the exact situation you're requesting.
Sort of off the top of my head:
Not Supernatural:
Supernatural:
Often times books about survival don't need to be fiction to be amazingly interesting, so I'll add these:
Its not Zombie related buy fits nicely with the way Brooks wrote WWZ.
http://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-A-Novel-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307740803
It's WWZ for the Robot Apocalypse.
Edit: Spelling
Even air-gapped systems have their risk. I recommend reading the fiction novel Robopocalypse
This book as well as the sequel was really good! Very much like World War Z - I actually liked it better.
https://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-Contemporaries-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp/0307740803
If you liked World War Z, then i would recommend checking out "Robopocalypse".
Is is written in the same style of World War Z, just with machines and robots. Damn good read.
It is also available on Kindle, not sure if you can rent it though
Read the Girl with all the Gifts. Plenty of action. Don't read any reviews. They're usually spoiler filled. :)
Dog Stars has action too. Not Terminator style, but definitely some exciting passages.
Stay away from Station Eleven if you like excitement. Long passages about Shakespeare, pet pomeranian poodles (no, I'm not joking), and the transience of fashion and fashion magazines. It's not a bad book, but it's not particularly gripping. I didn't care for it, other than it's my favourite genre.
Niven's Lucifer's Hammer reads like a Schwarzenegger movie, so you should like that. It's not the more cerebral novel, but it's immense fun.
Cronin's Passage trilogy is full of action too. It is a "vampire" book, very much an
'end-of-the-world' one. I really enjoyed the first two, and the third is on my TBR pile.
Have you read World War Z? Lots of action there. :)
Whilst I haven't read it, Robopocalypse sounds right up your alley.
Perhaps you'd enjoy the book Robopocalypse... I couldn't set it down once I started on it.
Edit: Oh cool! Sounds like they're starting filming of the movie adaptation this year too, bonus.
Was it Robotocalypse? I listened to the book on tape several years ago when I had to commute 80 miles across Dallas every day.
https://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-Contemporaries-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp/0307740803
It's a silly book written by someone who really wants to be contacted by a movie producer but it has some interesting ideas and subplots.
EDIT: Also I think it uses the same robot head on the cover...
I just got finished with Robopocalypse, would definitely recommend to Sci-fi fans
I love robots. Because robots. I don't know if you read much, but if you do, Robopocalypse is pretty cool.
Robopocalypse.
Also watch out for the movie in 2014.
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I'd like to get Car Mechanic Simulator 2015. I was thinking about getting the bundle it was in, but ended up waiting too long.
For post-apocalyptic stuff, do you want my favorite or something you haven't seen? The two could be very different. :)
Movie: Children of Men is very good, but that's too mainstream. So try [Hell Comes to Frogtown]
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/) starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. It's hilarious. (Extra tip: listen to the How Did This Get Made? podcast about the movie)
TV: I surprisingly like The 100, despite it being a CW show. The first 2 seasons are great. The end of season 2 was particularly gripping. Season 3 hasn't grabbed me yet, but I'm only 3 episodes in.
Book: Robopocalypse. The cheesy name turned me off at first, but it is a interesting take on a robot uprising from several points of view. It kind of reminds me of World War Z (the book, of course).
Robopocolypse by Daniel H. Wilson
This is like the beginning of the book Robopocalypse.
(Frankly, I personally feel like "Robocalypse" would have worked better as a title, but that's just me being nitpicky.)
It's pretty much the exact plotline of at least one novel (Robopocolypse comes to mind, but I'm almost certain there's others)... but the condensed nature of it and super quick escalation makes it a pretty cool watch.
Hell, the long-winded nature of Robopacolypse was sorta annoying (granted, most of the best stuff happens in the first 10% of the book)... so, in a way, this is a superior way of sharing ideas about what exactly will happen at that moment in time when AI's become truly self-aware and enter into a dialogue with their creators.