How To Build A Robot Army

How To Build A Robot Army – Tips On Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
Daniel H Wilson
2008, 176 pages

I’ve already reviewed two books by this author: Where’s My Jetpack? and How To Survive A Robot Uprising, and this book completes the set quite well. It’s premise is the opposite of Robot Uprising: Somehow we have managed to befriend the robots, and now the earth is under attack by all sorts of weird and wonderful movie cliches. Laid out in much the same manner, the first third of the book deals with reviewing current robotic technology, the second part with weaponizing our friendly neighbourhood Roombas and other bots, and the last part deals with how to take down movie monsters such as aliens, ninjas, vampires, pirates and sharks.

I would say that this book is better than Robot Uprising in that it is a little more hopeful. If the robots decide to be our friends, everything will be okay. If not? Well, I’m not so sure of our fates. The writing is very similar to the other two books, and I would suggest picking up all three for a lovely collection.