Robogenesis

Robogenesis

Ebook provided by NetGalley in exchange for honest review

My anticipation to read this was off the scale and Daniel H Wilson delivered in style and showed he is far more than just a one trick Terminator.

This was certainly not ‘more of the same’ with the evolution and escalation of both action and intelligence over Robopocolypse propelling the story to true mind-blowing proportions.

What is similar, and thankfully more thoroughly explored, is the sense of grey that exists in the war between man and robot especially as man begins to resemble robot and vice versa. The controlling parasites from the end of the first book are carried over here and represent the first step to the machines becoming more organic and also allow us to see the opinions of both man and machine to this evolving hybrid.

We are also treated to a deeper look into the individual A.I’s, which is not something I was expecting. Much like children then are raised and made not born a certain way so we have a number of different ‘brains’ out there. All raised differently, on different programs, different training, there is no way to know how one will act in relation to human society, and as we see the humans becoming more machine, we also get to see a much more human element to the A.I.s.

I feel like this is the Empire Strikes Back of the series. It’s a bit darker than the first, a little more bleak, somewhat more in depth and introspective. I am still looking forward to the finale but I don’t have the same hopes for humanity that I did after the first.