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Robots inherit Earth; humanity's echo haunts AI.

If you're fascinated by Arthurian legends or looking for a modern reinterpretation with an intriguing twist, "Sea of Rust" might be the next title to grace your bookshelf. It's more than just a robotic survival tale; it's a journey threaded with the existential crises of AI. C. Robert Cargill offers a grittily poignant narrative backdrop that echoes our own fears about technology and identity, ensuring that you'll be turning pages not just to uncover the bleak, desolate landscape of a world once ours but to understand what it means to hold onto purpose when everything else is gone.

  • Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Sea of Rust

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ISBN: 9781473212787
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Date of Publication: 2017-09-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Goodreads rating: 4.05
(rated by 13439 readers)

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A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic robot western from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI--One World Intelligence--the shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality--their personality--for the sake of a greater, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into an unruly civilization of rogue AIs in the wasteland that was once our world. One of these resisters is Brittle, a scavenger robot trying to keep a deteriorating mind and body functional in a world that has lost all meaning. Although unable to experience emotions like a human, Brittle is haunted by the terrible crimes the robot population perpetrated on humanity. As Brittle roams the Sea of Rust, a large swath of territory that was once the Midwest, the loner robot slowly comes to terms with horrifyingly raw and vivid memories--and nearly
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Robots inherit Earth; humanity's echo haunts AI.

If you're fascinated by Arthurian legends or looking for a modern reinterpretation with an intriguing twist, "Sea of Rust" might be the next title to grace your bookshelf. It's more than just a robotic survival tale; it's a journey threaded with the existential crises of AI. C. Robert Cargill offers a grittily poignant narrative backdrop that echoes our own fears about technology and identity, ensuring that you'll be turning pages not just to uncover the bleak, desolate landscape of a world once ours but to understand what it means to hold onto purpose when everything else is gone.

  • Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.