Don't Fear The Roomba? An Interview with Daniel H. Wilson

Sword and Laser 4:57 pm Thu Jan 15, 2015

Author and robotics engineer Daniel H. Wilson chats with us about his new story/app called Mayday: Deep Space about a person trapped on a ship full of monsters. Only you can help him survive! But of course we have to ask Daniel when the robots will rise up and kill us all.

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