num_pages: 368
description: In the near future at a moment no one will notice all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities defense and communication.In the months leading up to this sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humansa single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing smart toys a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a pacification unit go haywirebut most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.When the Robot War ignitesat a moment known later as Zero Hourhumankind will be both decimated and possibly for the first time in history united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.
language: English
title: Robopocalypse
publisher: Doubleday