Daniel H. Wilson books

Anthologies

Clockwork Dynasty Reading Order

Earth 2 Reading Order

Earth 2: World’s End Reading Order

Non-Fiction

Robo Reading Order

Short Stories/Novellas

Standalone Novels

Daniel H. Wilson holds a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and that technical background shows up in nearly everything he writes. He first got attention with How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005), a tongue-in-cheek guide that used real robotics research to map out how humans might fare against their mechanical creations. That book led to more humorous non-fiction, including Where’s My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army.

Wilson’s fiction career took off with Robopocalypse in 2011, a novel about a full-scale robot war told through found documents and survivor accounts. Steven Spielberg optioned the film rights before the book was even published. The sequel, Robogenesis (2014), continued the story. Wilson also wrote The Clockwork Dynasty (2017), a novel about ancient automata living secretly among humans, and The Andromeda Evolution (2019), an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton’s classic The Andromeda Strain.

Outside of prose fiction, Wilson wrote DC Comics’ Earth 2 series, reimagining classic superheroes on a parallel Earth. He has contributed to numerous anthologies and edited Robot Uprisings, a short story collection featuring writers like John McCarthy and Scott Sigler. His work spans fiction, non-fiction, comics, and short stories, all tied together by a fascination with technology and what happens when it outpaces the people who built it.