Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if you can overlook some clunky dialogue and story turns in line with summer blockbuster season. Similarly, Wilson published the mock guidebook “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” in 2005, and “Robopocalypse” is its fiction spinoff, a crisply efficient and intermittently chilling summer read that carries such propulsive energy you can practically see the film’s storyboard being shaped behind every word, possibly because that’s exactly what was happening once a certain director got on board. In 2003 Brooks broke through with the pithy parody “The Zombie Survival Guide,” and the resulting novel “World War Z” has been spun into a movie due next summer starring Brad Pitt. How does a 33-year-old robotics engineer become the heir apparent to Michael Crichton? Attracting a name like Spielberg certainly helps, but so does following the path taken by fellow sci-fi upstart Max Brooks. What struggling novelist wouldn’t be envious of Wilson’s trajectory? None other than Steven Spielberg reached down from the heavens to option his new novel “Robopocalypse” - a deal brokered before the book was even finished, by the way - and rights to his still-unpublished follow-up have already been snapped up by another studio. If there’s such a thing as voodoo in literary circles, a lot of jealous sci-fi writers are probably burying needles into tiny Daniel H.
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P.L.: So, I don't know if any conversation with a writer of your acclaim who writes in what is considered by many to be the sub-genre of grimdark, can begin without asking you about the subject OF grimdark. Michael : Thanks for having me! I do love being had. P.L.: Such a privilege to be able to interview you, Michael! Welcome to Six Elementals Interviews! These works include: The Manifest Delusions Books, The City of Sacrifice Series, The Obsidian Path, Ghosts of Tomorrow, Swarm and Steel, Fire and Flesh, The Millennial Manifesto, A Tithe of Bon e, and a plethora of short stories, including those as part of anthologies with other authors, and also co-authored books such as Norylska Groans (with Clayton Snyder). Michael’s currently published works are numerous, and thus need to be noted in terms of series, as opposed to individual books. It's a huge honour to interview one of the most well-known dark fantasy authors ANYWHERE, award-winning writer Michael R. 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