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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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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.

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.

Daniel H Wilson sub-series and character series

Robo books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Robopocalypse"

    Robopocalypse

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2011Robo, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Robogenesis"

    Robogenesis

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2014Robo, Book 2

Standalone Daniel H Wilson books

  1. Book cover for "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"

    How to Survive a Robot Uprising

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2005
  2. Book cover for "How to Build a Robot Army"

    How to Build a Robot Army

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2007
  3. Book cover for "Where's My Jetpack?"

    Where's My Jetpack?

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2007
  4. Book cover for "Mad Scientist Hall of Fame"

    Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2008
  5. Book cover for "Bro-Jitsu"

    Bro-Jitsu

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2010
  6. Book cover for "A Boy and His Bot"

    A Boy and His Bot

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2011
  7. Book cover for "Code Lightfall and the Robot King"

    Code Lightfall and the Robot King

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2011
  8. Book cover for "Amped"

    Amped

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2012
  9. Book cover for "Quarantine Zone"

    Quarantine Zone

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2016
  10. Book cover for "The Clockwork Dynasty"

    The Clockwork Dynasty

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2017
  11. Book cover for "Guardian Angels and Other Monsters"
  12. Book cover for "The Andromeda Evolution"

    The Andromeda Evolution

    by Daniel H Wilson & Michael Crichton

    2019Andromeda, Book 2
  13. Book cover for "Hole in the Sky"

    Hole in the Sky

    by Daniel H Wilson

    2025

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