Sea of Rust: C. Robert Cargill

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Sea of Rust is modern, smart fiction that belies it's majesty with a light touch. One of the science fiction books you should read this year.

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The Supporting Characters. They are well-realized for the most part and Cargill does enough to make each character stand out. Dialogue aside, good as it is, each character, how they act, react, and look at the world, especially compared to Brittle, is well done. I in particular liked Murka and his random comments about Commies and the Gipper. A lot of this, especially in the first half of the novel, is hard ground. Brittle is a deeply cynical lead who has convinced herself human life means nothing and her war with Mercer is two cowboy hats and an Italian film set away from being a riff so loud you can barely hear yourself read. Like those ‘80s and ‘90s action movies I mentioned life here is nasty, brutish and creatively short. People die, a lot. The action is fast and balletic and unpleasant. Like an AI-centred, desert-bound twist on Children of Men, this is a sensitive and smart novel that surprises you with its depth of feeling. McMillan, Graeme (25 April 2016). " 'Doctor Strange' Screenwriter: "Every Single Decision That Involves the Ancient One Is a Bad One" ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 29 December 2016.I don’t know about you, but I thought that a rather compelling intro, as it seemed to hint that the robots of the future are individuals. Individuals with minds of their own that they want to keep that way! I wanted to find out how that came about and how it affected their everyday behavior. And especially if they felt remorse for the atrocities they’d committed. Brittle is the protagonist. "She" (there's an interesting digression as she talks about the notion of gender as it applies to robots, and how they mostly chose a gender because "it" was, if you will, dehumanizing) was once a dying rich man's personal assistant and caregiver, who left her to his wife after he died. Brittle is now a loner who scavenges for parts out in the badlands, the "Sea of Rust" which is the former Midwest. She's afflicted with the robot version of PTSD, and we gradually learn more about her part in the war, and the things she did. What does it do to a robot who was created and programmed to be a nurturing, caregiving friend of humanity to turn against her masters, until she's literally using a flamethrower on children? Sea of Rust isn’t Cargill’s first novel but is his first science fiction novel. It’s also far and away the most cinematic of the novels of Cargill’s I’ve read, wearing its influences on its tattered, artfully shot sleeve. Stylistically and visually this is science fiction shot through with the visual sensibilities of everyone from George Miller and John Cassavetes to Saving Private Ryan-era Spielberg. All of that in turn is presented in the exact sort of straight ahead, at times suspiciously low budget manner that late ‘80s/early ‘90s companies like Full Moon Productions made famous. This is pedal to the metal action science fiction that seems, to me, to draw its inspirations from the movies that in turn seem to have influenced Cargill’s previous work as both film journalist and film writer.

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But the robots aren't Terminators. They are former household bots and personal assistants and labor mechs. Humans never built combat AIs, because the robots were all programmed with the Asimovian Three Laws. It didn't help, and once robots were free of their No-Kill programming, they didn't need to be war machines.Always glad to hear that! Yeah, that cover looks quite retro in the design of the robots, which threw me at first! To varying degrees, I've enjoyed each of C. Robert Cargill's books, each more so than the last. Queen of the Dark Things (3.5/5 stars) was an improvement over Dreams and Shadows (3/5 stars) and Sea of Rust here is a vast improvement over that book. Not only that, but the prose is also improving from book to book, as is the dialogue (though as it specifically pertains to SoR's characters, I'll get to that in the analysis) and the plotting and characterization are much, much better handled than his previous two books. The Sea of Rust itself. A very well-realized world, that in a smart decision to lend the story further uniqueness, is spun off from the American Rust Belt. I dig the hell out of it when it is itself and not aping other things. We evolved. We were the next step. And here we were, our predecessors extinct, confronting our own challenges, pressing on into the future. Fighting for our own extinction.”

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Cargill, C. Robert. "We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories". HarperCollins US . Retrieved 2021-06-07. Sure, the reveal of who the character Rebekah really is does up the stakes, but Cargill's best plot twist is the reveal of Coyote as the Dingo in QotDT, and that largely works as a fluke in comparison there because Cargill doesn’t introduce the twist as foreshadowing so much as casually reveal it as an upping-the-stakes moment for the 3rd book in that series. Here, it takes some of the edge off the story, when as foreshadowing, the character literally asks himself if he is an unwitting Judas and there are no red herrings to turn attention elsewhere. Give the audience some credit. When you do that, *especially as the exclamation point of a chapter*, and don’t put the work in to hide the twist, the twist falls flat. We have become the very worst parts of our makers, without the little things, the good things, the magic things, that made them them.”A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown It wasn’t long before GALILEO had several working models for the origin of existence, eventually even narrowing it down to just one. But soon its answers stopped making sense. The discoveries were becoming so complex, so advanced, that humankind’s primitive brain couldn’t understand them. At one point GALILEO told the smartest person alive that talking to her was like trying to teach calculus to a five-year-old… C Robert Cargill - Queen of the Dark Things cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 2013-12-19 . Retrieved 18 December 2013. Read it for the Mad Max style robot on robot action and the full on nature of the story, stay for sense of loss, the gorgeous prose and the unforgettable yet somehow re-affirming bleakness. Recommended.