About this episode
Daniel H. Wilson discusses his extensive bibliography and the themes of his works, including robotics and Indigenous perspectives.
Daniel H. Wilson is a frequent New York Times bestseller with a long bibliography that spans speculative fiction, techno-thrillers, and science satire. Wilson’s work is informed by his education and research background, including a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Early standouts include How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005) and How to Build a Robot Army (2007), humorous but fact-based guides about the dangers of robotics and AI. Wilson may be best known to many for his documentary-style doomsday novel Robopocalypse (2011) and its sequel Robogenesis (2014). Subsequent work includes The Clockwork Dynasty (2017), an historical fantasy about a secret, immortal race of biological automatons whose existence has quietly shaped human history, and The Andromeda Evolution (2019), an authorized sequel to the Michael Crichton classic The Andromeda Strain. Wilson’s latest novel, Hole in the Sky , is an alien encounter story inspired by the author’s own Cherokee background. Notes The Seattle Times: “Wilson reimagines first contact through an Indigenous lens, fusing Cherokee cosmology with cutting-edge science and creeping cosmic horror.” The post Club Book Episode 203…
People in this episode
Host: Club Book
Guest: Daniel H. Wilson
Topics covered
- speculative fiction
- techno-thrillers
- science satire
- robotics
- AI
- Indigenous perspectives
- cosmic horror
Keywords
- Daniel H. Wilson
- robotics
- AI
- speculative fiction
- Indigenous
- science fiction
- dystopian
- novels
- bestseller
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York Times, Carnegie Mellon University, The Seattle Times
Books & works: How to Survive a Robot Uprising, How to Build a Robot Army, Robopocalypse, Robogenesis, The Clockwork Dynasty, The Andromeda Evolution, Hole in the Sky
Places: Cherokee
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