Robogenesis

A Novel

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Emily Rankin, Mike Chamberlain

Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times best seller Robopocalypse.

"The machine is still out there. Still live."

Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the Earth was left in tatters…but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed.

In Robogenesis, we see that Archos has survived. Spread across the far reaches of the world, the machine code has fragmented into millions of pieces, hiding and regrouping. In a series of riveting narratives, Robogenesis explores the fates of characters new and old, robotic and human, as they fight to build a new world in the wake of a devastating war. Listeners will bear witness as survivors find one another, form into groups, and react to a drastically different (and deadly) technological landscape. All the while, the remnants of Archos's shattered intelligence are seeping deeper into new breeds of machines, mounting a war that will not allow for humans to win again.

Daniel H. Wilson makes a triumphant return to the apocalyptic world he created, for an action-filled, raucous, very smart thrill ride about humanity and technology pushed to the tipping point.

©2014 Daniel H. Wilson (P)2014 Random House Audio

Robot voice FAIL

One of the readers affects a "robot voice" that takes me completely out of the story. I could imagine the reader doing a herky-jerky robot dance every time she voiced one of them. Someone should have asked for a re-do of those passages. It was hard to get past, but I enjoyed the story enough to keep going, and the rest of the performance was solid (even the robot voice reqder)!).

Ending disapointing

Good story. Over descriptive at times. Ending lacked an ending. Would love to see movie.

Good but not as good as the first.

I really really liked the first one and it's hard for me to pinpoint what wasn't so great about this book. It wasn't holding my attention like the first. Still a good book and I will continue to read the series.

There are older AI

Here you learn more of the back ground of the AI and that the war had never ended. The transformation or birth of the mother of the freeborn changes the out come a the war or at least of a battle. The birth of the new human shows that the human race will continue along with the freeborn. I highly recommend this book.

Better than terminator Genesis

Slow start and some of the narrator make you grind your teeth but it gets better when Emily Rankin stops narrating 7hrs in. It's predecessor is definitely the better listen. But as Daniel H Wilson mentioned on Twitter that there's going to be a third. I liked it but I didn't love it.

Following the apocalypse

Wilson's story continues into the early days after the robot apocalypse, now dividing the narrative across multiple factions.

An entertaining story

Robogenisis is a bit darker and more convoluted that Robopocalypse. It's an interesting story but the end feels a bit rushed.

a worthy successor to the first book

a dazzling work of imagination...surprises you at every turn. Would have made a fantastic movie !

I would only give it a four star Only because...

Five star all day and night.. four star only due to the fact I knew there was gonna be such a hard wait for part three...I wish Matilda could justupload the next one, nice job dog.. peace and love. ant

Surprised to be bored after the first book

I really loved the first book in this series where the AI wakes up and escapes and starts a war. But this second installment was just simply very boring for me. I had to really try to even get through this. Maybe it was the fact that this time there's some three different people reading the book, or that the story was just not as strong in general.

All said and done I recommend the first book in the series for all AI & scifi fans, but not this second one.