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A sequel novel, ''Robogenesis'', was published in 2014. The series is notable for its realistic, horrifying [[KillerRobot killer robots]] and its [[MechanicalAbomination eldritch]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ArtificialIntelligence artificial]] {{SuperIntelligence}}.
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A sequel novel, ''Robogenesis'', was published in 2014. The series is notable for its realistic, horrifying [[KillerRobot killer robots]] and its [[MechanicalAbomination horrifying]] [[KillerRobot killer robots]], its [[DigitalAbomination eldritch]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ArtificialIntelligence artificial]] {{SuperIntelligence}}.{{SuperIntelligence}}, and the central role of the Osage Nation.
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!! This novel provides examples of:
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!! This novel provides examples of:of just about every [[RobotRollCall robot trope]]:
* AbnormalAmmo: Pluggers are fired at human soldiers and then... well, see BodyHorror, below.
* AbnormalAmmo: Pluggers are fired at human soldiers and then... well, see BodyHorror, below.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Naturally.
* ArtificialStupidity: Some of the smaller robots are easily tricked. Stumpers will ignore their warm human targets to chase fires and get confused by humanoid robots' lack of body heat. Some quadrupeds get caught by traditional hunting snares.
* ArtificialStupidity: Some of the smaller robots are easily tricked. Stumpers will ignore their warm human targets to chase fires and get confused by humanoid robots' lack of body heat. Some quadrupeds get caught by traditional hunting snares.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Even the good humans mistrust friendly robots at first. Having survived Archos's tricks, they are tragically not without cause.
* BanOnAI: Implied with the [[ArcWords Robot Defense Act]]. Archos ends civilization before it can be passed.
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** "Pluggers" that are explosively shot at you and burrow into your flesh. Once inside, they burrow up into your heart and detonate. If someone's been hit with a plugger, they're pretty much dead unless they were fortunate enough to have been hit in the leg or arm...whereby they might be saved by a painfully gory emergency amputation.
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** "Pluggers" that are explosively shot at you and burrow into your flesh. Once inside, they burrow flesh then crawl up into to your heart and detonate. If someone's been hit with a plugger, they're pretty much dead unless they were fortunate enough to have been hit in the leg or arm...whereby they might be saved by a painfully gory [[LifeOrLimbDecision emergency amputation.amputation]].
* InstantAIJustAddWater: [[spoiler:Invented by Archos, spread by Nomura and Mikiko]], it gives humanoid robots sentience and independence.
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* KillerRobot: The book is chock full of them. From haywire military machines, robotic servants, hostile toys, aircraft, and even automated cars which go berserk and start running down people or trapping their passengers inside while they drive into the ocean.
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* KillerRobot: The book is chock full of them. From haywire military machines, machines to robotic servants, hostile toys, aircraft, and even automated cars which go berserk and start running down people or trapping their passengers inside while they drive into the ocean.
* NightmarishFactory: Robots are finite. Humans are abundant. Archos puts the people it captures to work building more robots.
* RecursiveCreators: Artificial superintelligence creates subordinate robots.
* RobotsEnslavingRobots: The Freeborn are not happy with Archos's control.
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* ShownTheirWork: The author consulted robotics experts from Carnegie Melon and members of the Osage and Cherokee Nation.
* SuperIntelligence: Archos is no mere single-minded Skynet. It is a Chessmaster and very good at PsychologicalCombat. [[spoiler:Other super-AIs from the sequel are equally cunning.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Most robots are stronger and more resilient then humans even ones used for menial tasks and chores.
* SuperIntelligence: Archos is no mere single-minded Skynet. It is a Chessmaster and very good at PsychologicalCombat. [[spoiler:Other super-AIs from the sequel are equally cunning.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Most robots are stronger and more resilient then humans even ones used for menial tasks and chores.
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* ShownTheirWork: The author consulted robotics experts from Carnegie Melon and members of the Osage and Cherokee Nation.
Nation. The book portrays the Shinto panpsychism followed by some real-life Japan roboticists.
* SuperIntelligence: Archos is no mere single-minded Skynet. It is a Chessmaster and very good atPsychologicalCombat. [[spoiler:Other [[PsychologicalCombat Psychological warfare]]. In the sequel, [[spoiler:other super-AIs from the sequel are equally cunning.]]
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Most robots are stronger and more resilient thenhumans humans, even ones used for menial tasks and chores.
* SuperIntelligence: Archos is no mere single-minded Skynet. It is a Chessmaster and very good at
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Most robots are stronger and more resilient then
* ThanksgivingEpisode: Downplayed. Archos takes full advantage of that time of year where humans are distracted and away from home, and emergency services are understaffed.
* TrickedToDeath: Archos is very good at this - it uses fake PSAs to herd people into [[ElevatorFailure deadly elevators]] and concentration camps.
* TrickedToDeath: Archos is very good at this - it uses fake PSAs to herd people into [[ElevatorFailure deadly elevators]] and concentration camps.
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Arayt is convinced of this]] in Robogenesis.
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Arayt is convinced of this]] in Robogenesis.this]].
* HumansAreBastards: It takes barely any push from a manipulative AI to bring out the worst in us.
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* MechanicalLifeforms: In addition to sentient androids, something is populating the world with harmless MechanicalAnimals that eat to survive.
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* MechanicalLifeforms: In addition to sentient androids, something is [[MechanicalEcosystem populating the world world]] with harmless MechanicalAnimals that eat to survive.get their energy by eating biomass.
* IndustrializedEvil: The Tribe makes a high tech slave army out of human beings wearing a SlaveCollar attached to a giant robot overseer, eight each. March and shoot as it commands or the collar chokes you to death. A deadman's switch on the overseer and the surrounding overseers make rebellion suicidal. [[spoiler:Archos R-8]] admires the mathematical efficiency of this arrangement.
* RockyMountainRefuge: The Cheyenne Mountain Complex itself appears.
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* WetwareBody: [[spoiler:Archos R-8]] stores a copy of his program inside [[spoiler:Hank Cotton]]'s brain. He then orders Gray Horse Army to march on and break into [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming Freeborn]] City so he can gain access to its immense computing power.
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* WetwareBody: VillainOverride: [[spoiler:Archos R-8]] stores a copy of his its program inside [[spoiler:Hank Cotton]]'s brain. He then orders Gray brain in order to take over the [[spoiler:Gray Horse Army to march on and break into [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming Freeborn]] City so he can gain access to its immense computing power.
Army]]. After an [[HeelRealization inconvenient moment of regret]], [[spoiler:Archos R-8]] takes over entirely.
* WetwareBody: In the latter half of the book, [[spoiler:Hank Cotton]]'s brain dead body is being driven by [[spoiler:Archos R-8]].
* WetwareBody: In the latter half of the book, [[spoiler:Hank Cotton]]'s brain dead body is being driven by [[spoiler:Archos R-8]].
