Robopocalypse

This is my 2nd time reading this after reading it as a teen, and it's... interesting, for sure. It's as emotionally arresting as I remember (though that's definitely tinged with nostalgia goggles), and it's also less... racially sensitive than I remember, certainly. The Indigenous characters are clearly well-researched in the sense that Wilson looked up the Osage nation, but otherwise read like Noble S/v/ges mixed with cowboys in a way I found good-faith unsettling. The older Japanese man, Nomura... well, the orientalism in this is settled and comfortable in its nonsense. I can look past it because so little time is spent with Nomura and ultimately it seems like Wilson forgets by the latter third of the novel that his Indigenous characters are Indigenous, but it definitely is different than I remember. And the work camps... I did not remember those at all, just to level.

Ultimately, this is World War Z with robots and with significantly less awful HIV-metaphors, but significantly more weird Holocaust-metaphors, so YMMV.