Robopocalypse

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Daniel H. Wilson

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company for permission to reprint an excerpt from “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” from The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan, copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan.

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Jacket design by Will Staehle

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard)

Robopocalypse : a novel / Daniel H. Wilson. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Robots—Fiction. 2. Artificial intelligence—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.I57796R63 2011

813′.6—dc22 2010043134

eISBN: 978-0-385-53386-7

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