In the book Robopocalypse the central theme is a warning not to "play god" because at some point things will get out of hand. The book starts deep into the war and then the first fifth is told in flashbacks taking form of transcripts, security footage, etc. the first civilian attack happens in chapter 2 Jeff Thompson, a worker at a fast food gas station in Oklahoma, is encountered by a type of android called a "Big Smiley" during his shift. So his coworker Felipe have to defend themselves from the robot. This is a good example of the theme because the first quote of the chapter says, "It looks me right in the eyes man. And I can tell it's ... thinking. Like it's alive. And p***ed off" (Wilson 21).  It showed how innovation can go too far and how controlling everything can come back to bite us.

If you click here it will bring you to a review of the book. The review states that "Robopocalypse wants so badly to be World War Z (by Max Brooks) with evil robots that it's disappointing when it doesn't capture the book's best aspects" (VanDerWerff)  but I still recommend it.

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