But I did so with one purpose: to forge a hybrid fighting force capable of surviving the True War-a war that has been initiated and is being fought by superintelligent machines. “I decimated the human race, regrettably. “In response, I triggered the New War,” the AI explains. But early in this book, a copy of Archos reveals to Russian janitor Vasily Zaytsev that many copies exist and are at odds with an earlier version calling itself Arayt Shah. To catch up, in the first book, the good guys killed the AI called Archos by destroying its mainframe. While this entry maintains the tension of the original’s run-and-gun warfare against a multiplicity of post- Terminator killing machines, the Matrix-like intrigue of the artificial intelligence’s murky origins is lacking here. Apparently Wilson has decided a follow-up is in order. The first book in this series, Robopocalypse (2011)-a recounting of a war between humans and a powerful new artificial intelligence-seemed like a stand-alone in the manner of Max Brooks’ World War Z, despite its cinematic appeal. Man meets machine in the second act of the war to end all wars: Robopocalypse 2.0.
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