{"id":2000,"date":"2011-06-07T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2011-06-09T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T00:31:44","slug":"again-the-robot-revolution-robocalypse-by-daniel-h-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/again-the-robot-revolution-robocalypse-by-daniel-h-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, The Robot Revolution: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_link id=&#8221;0385533853&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;  container=&#8221;&#8221; container_class=&#8221;&#8221; ]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41o8g768EOL.jpg\" alt=\"Robopocalypse: A Novel\" width=\"250\" \/>[\/amazon_link]Scientists have a grand tradition of turning from writing academic papers to science fiction to transmit their manifestos from the ivory tower to the tech-savvy populace\u2026and beyond. Daniel Wilson has been easing into sf with a\u00a0string of books about the future, including <strong>Where\u2019s My Jetpack?<\/strong>, a look at what happened to the future of sf\u2019s golden age, and the very well-received <strong>How to Survive the Robot Uprising<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s current book makes no attempt to hide its identity as the latter title, rebooted with 100% more characters, plot, and action. Well, maybe with 50% more of each. Despite Steven Spielberg\u2019s excitement and affection for the book\u2019s prospect as his next feature roboblockbuster,<strong> Robopocalypse<\/strong> is short on story, as well as being something of a disappointment as a work of hard sf.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You can read the full review at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/guest-review-ernest-lilley-on-robopocalypse-by-daniel-wilson\/\">SFSignal.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_link id=&#8221;0385533853&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; container=&#8221;&#8221; container_class=&#8221;&#8221; ][\/amazon_link]Scientists have a grand tradition of turning from writing academic papers to science fiction to transmit their manifestos from the ivory tower to the tech-savvy populace\u2026and beyond. Daniel Wilson has been easing into sf with a\u00a0string of books about the future, including Where\u2019s My Jetpack?, a look at what happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}