Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Daniel H. Wilson's "A Boy and His Bot," the movie

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: A Boy and His Bot by Daniel H. Wilson.

The entry begins:
A Boy and His Bot takes place in an experimental world populated entirely by robots and abandoned for the last thousand years. The movie will have to mix live-action and plenty of computer-generated effects. That said, Code Lightfall (the "boy") explores an incredible (and incredibly dangerous) new world with its own set of rules. The mechanical inhabitants of this place don't know or care much about human beings. The actor Max Records, from Where the Wild Things Are, definitely...[read on]
Learn more about the book and author at Daniel Wilson's blog.

Daniel H. Wilson is an engineer who earned his PhD in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. His books include Bro-Jitsu, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army.

A Boy and His Bot is his first book for readers age 9-12.

My Book, The Movie: A Boy and His Bot.

--Marshal Zeringue