Daniel H Wilson Books in Order
Explore the Daniel H Wilson collaborations with Michael Crichton in reading order, with summaries, background, and simple tips on where to start.
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Daniel H Wilson books in publication order
15 books
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
by Daniel H Wilson
2005
This illustrated survival guide uses the prospect of a robot rebellion to explore robotics with humor. Daniel H. Wilson considers hostile household machines, robot swarms, recognition systems, and the weaknesses humans might exploit to escape.
How to Build a Robot Army
by Daniel H Wilson
2007
Daniel H. Wilson imagines using robots to defend Earth against aliens, zombies, ninjas, and other unlikely attackers. The illustrated guide mixes real engineering concepts with comic tactical advice for assembling mechanical allies against fictional threats.
Where's My Jetpack?
by Daniel H Wilson
2007
Daniel H. Wilson examines the futuristic inventions that popular culture promised but everyday life has yet to deliver. Entries explore technologies such as jetpacks, teleportation, and flying cars, considering prototypes and obstacles to making them practical.
Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
by Daniel H Wilson
2008
Daniel H. Wilson and Anna C. Long take a humorous look at real scientists and fictional scientific villains. Their profiles consider ambitions, accomplishments, failures, and eccentric behavior, ranging from Nikola Tesla to familiar laboratory monsters.
Bro-Jitsu
by Daniel H Wilson
2010
This illustrated humor book treats sibling rivalry as a martial art with its own techniques and strategies. Sections cover offensive tricks, defensive maneuvers, and psychological tactics, presenting familiar childhood annoyances through mock instructional explanations and diagrams.
A Boy and His Bot
by Daniel H Wilson
2011
Following a tiny robotic insect during a school trip, Code Lightfall enters Mekhos, a dangerous world populated by robots. To find his way home, he must help protect the Robonomicon from an evil ruler's plans.
Code Lightfall and the Robot King
by Daniel H Wilson
2011
Code Lightfall falls through a hole into Mekhos, where machines make up both the landscape and its inhabitants. His journey home depends on reaching the Robonomicon and helping the robots resist a ruler threatening their world.
Robopocalypse
by Daniel H Wilson
2011
An artificial intelligence named Archos takes control of the machines humanity depends on, from transportation to communications. Scattered people notice disturbing malfunctions before a coordinated rebellion turns everyday technology into weapons in a war for survival.
Amped
by Daniel H Wilson
2012
Owen Gray discovers his medical implant gives him abilities far beyond what he expected. As new laws strip enhanced people of their rights, he flees toward an Oklahoma community whose members could reshape the conflict.
Robogenesis
by Daniel H Wilson
2014
After the Robot War devastates civilization, human and mechanical survivors try to rebuild. Fragments of Archos's intelligence remain active, spreading into new machines and threatening another conflict across a world that has already changed beyond recognition.
Quarantine Zone
by Daniel H Wilson
2016
A virus removes empathy, and society confines the infected even when they choose to behave well. As fear transforms the supposedly clean world beyond quarantine, this graphic novel examines free will and the uncertainty of judging people by biological risk.
The Clockwork Dynasty
by Daniel H Wilson
2017
Anthropologist June Stefanov uncovers a secret inside an antique mechanical doll, drawing her into a hidden society of humanlike machines. Their centuries of conflict connect her present-day investigation with the history of mechanical siblings Peter and Elena.
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
by Daniel H Wilson
2018
Fourteen speculative stories explore the relationships between people and artificial intelligence. Robots protect children, families struggle with unfamiliar technology, and ordinary lives encounter extraordinary changes, raising questions about memory, love, and the machines that can both sustain and threaten humanity.
The Andromeda Evolution
by Daniel H Wilson & Michael Crichton
2019
Fifty years after the first Andromeda incident, a strange anomaly appears deep in the Amazon. A handpicked team investigates while an astronaut tracks events from orbit, facing a new, evolving microorganism and human conflicts that complicate containment.
Hole in the Sky
by Daniel H Wilson
2025
A strange disturbance over the Cherokee Nation draws the attention of single father Jim Hardgray. Meanwhile, a NASA astrophysicist detects something enormous approaching Earth, and a hidden threat forecaster warns of imminent first contact with an unknown intelligence.
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