Daniel H. Wilson
Author of Robopocalypse
About the Author
Image credit: Image of author Daniel H. Wilson, taken by Anna C. Long
Series
Works by Daniel H. Wilson
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (2007) 297 copies, 8 reviews
How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies (2008) 134 copies, 2 reviews
Earth 2: Society (2015-) #4 4 copies
Helmet 3 copies
Earth 2: World's End (2014-) #3 (Earth 2- World's End (2014-) Graphic Novel) (2014) 2 copies, 1 review
Earth 2: Society No. 4 1 copy
Earth 2: Society No. 3 1 copy
OCASTA {short story} 1 copy
Earth 2: Society (2015-) #7 1 copy
Earth 2: Society No. 2 1 copy
Earth 2: Society No. 1 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Earth 2: World's End (2014-) #11 (Earth 2- World's End (2014-) Graphic Novel) (2014) 1 copy, 1 review
Small Things 1 copy
Foul Weather 1 copy
Associated Works
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers (2019) — Contributor — 450 copies, 21 reviews
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Contributor — 402 copies, 21 reviews
Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction (2016) — Contributor — 98 copies, 6 reviews
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects (2014) — Contributor — 75 copies, 4 reviews
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2023) — Contributor — 46 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Wilson, Daniel H.
- Legal name
- Wilson, Daniel Howard
- Birthdate
- 1978-03-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Places of residence
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Education
- University of Tulsa (M.S. ∙ robotics ∙ M.S. ∙ Machine Learning)
Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. ∙ robotics)
Booker T. Washington High School - Occupations
- author
television host
robotics engineer - Awards and honors
- Wired Magazine, Rave Award (2006)
- Short biography
- Daniel H. Wilson, (born March 6, 1978) is a New York Times best-selling author, television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His books include the award-winning humor titles How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army and the bestseller Robopocalypse.
Daniel H. Wilson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the elder of two children. He is Cherokee and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Wilson attended Booker T. Washington High School, graduating in 1996. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Tulsa in 2000, spending one semester studying philosophy abroad in Melbourne, Australia at the University of Melbourne. He completed an M.S. in Robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his Ph.D. in Robotics in 2005 at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His thesis work, entitled Assistive Intelligent Environments for Automatic Health Monitoring, focused on providing automatic location and activity monitoring in the home via low-cost sensors such as motion detectors and contact switches. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle.
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Robopocalypse in Science Fiction Fans (July 2011)
Reviews
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What bothers me most about this book is how utterly defeated humanity is at zero hour and how utterly in control the AI is, and yet the humans still implausibly come back from it. Yes, I know that's the point, but the power disparity is just too great. The AI landed a knockout punch right at the start, and has control over all the tech and all the resources worldwide.
We're talking entire cities where every single car was directly stated to be under the AI's control... and you somehow expect me to believe that a couple people walked in and destroyed a super-duper-important building? And that this one building was doing all the work of "jamming" the satellite system? (What does that even mean?) This is a year or two into the war, and the humans hadn't been doing anything with the satellites to this point. Those satellites should be thoroughly hacked under the AI's control by now, or at least have the passwords changed (metaphorically), not ready to become human infrastructure again with one strategic building removal.
We know the AI can communicate with its network of robots. We know it's mobile, with multiple models including humanoid. We know it can learn and interact with its environment. It spent like a year prepping, surely reading everything there is to know on the internet. We know that the vast majority of the world is dead or in labor camps. We know it knows where the resistance centers are: Scouts have been looking at the Osage reservation for a while, and robots have been trying to get into a "castle" in Japan. All it needs to do is send a few of its androids onto a few planes from a few of the military bases that it controls, and go bomb the reservation and castle out of existence. Surely it's had time in those two years to find the relevant top secret manuals on the military bases. They can't fight back against that kind of firepower, and the AI should have it. Oh right, it's too busy enslaving what humans are left and supplying them with superpowers, almost as if you're hoping it'll fall into the resistance's hands. (Oh, right, there's an author and that's exactly what he's doing...)
Too convincing a complete takeover too early. Completely unconvinced by the humans' supposed ability to fight back.… (more)
We're talking entire cities where every single car was directly stated to be under the AI's control... and you somehow expect me to believe that a couple people walked in and destroyed a super-duper-important building? And that this one building was doing all the work of "jamming" the satellite system? (What does that even mean?) This is a year or two into the war, and the humans hadn't been doing anything with the satellites to this point. Those satellites should be thoroughly hacked under the AI's control by now, or at least have the passwords changed (metaphorically), not ready to become human infrastructure again with one strategic building removal.
We know the AI can communicate with its network of robots. We know it's mobile, with multiple models including humanoid. We know it can learn and interact with its environment. It spent like a year prepping, surely reading everything there is to know on the internet. We know that the vast majority of the world is dead or in labor camps. We know it knows where the resistance centers are: Scouts have been looking at the Osage reservation for a while, and robots have been trying to get into a "castle" in Japan. All it needs to do is send a few of its androids onto a few planes from a few of the military bases that it controls, and go bomb the reservation and castle out of existence. Surely it's had time in those two years to find the relevant top secret manuals on the military bases. They can't fight back against that kind of firepower, and the AI should have it. Oh right, it's too busy enslaving what humans are left and supplying them with superpowers, almost as if you're hoping it'll fall into the resistance's hands. (Oh, right, there's an author and that's exactly what he's doing...)
Too convincing a complete takeover too early. Completely unconvinced by the humans' supposed ability to fight back.… (more)
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