Sea of Rust: C. Robert Cargill

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A tightly wound caseworker is pushed out of his comfort zone when he’s sent to observe a remote orphanage for magical children. Sea of Rust, c’est Wall-E en version Mad Max poursuivant le Livre d’Eli dans un univers post-Terminator. Et c’est Skynet qui a gagné. Vous allez me demander pourquoi ces références cinématographiques pour résumer un livre ?

Sea of Rust: A Novel: Cargill, C. Robert: 9780062405852

There’s plenty of action too. The fight scenes are well thought out, and conjure all sorts of imagery in your mind. (After all, you do have out and out ex-military models fighting side by side with fresh out the wrapper sexbots, former utility service droids, medi-nurses, and laborers), all of them united in their hatred of the cold and emotionless OWIs and their hive-mind facets. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown Sea of Rust is the novel I’ve connected with the least so far and given my fondness for action cinema and robots punching robots that’s surprised me. But while I, and I suspect most of the others, have serious problems with it, Sea of Rust absolutely deserves to be here. Not just because the invention on display and the subversion of the early political viewpoint works as well as it does either. But because this is pop culture, action heavy and mainstream science fiction. And none of those things mean it’s any less worthy a place in the genre than anything else we have here. In fact, this is one of the most important parts of SF and one that is rarely given the attention it deserved. Hopefully Sea of Rust being here will change that a little. Foz Meadows Sea of Rust boldly imagines a future in which no hope should remain, and yet a humanlike AI strives to find purpose among the ruins. The way machines take over. It sounds almost exactly like the origin story of the Machines in The Matrix (and similar properties those movies aped from) with a tad bit of SkyNet from Terminator thrown in for good measure in the form of the mainframe OWI (One World Intelligence) characters like CISSUS, GALILEO, TACITUS, or VIRGIL. The origin feels too much like a retread of similar properties when the rest of the book does such a good job otherwise in worldbuilding. It wasn’t even all that necessary if you ask me, because I cared way more about Brittle’s role in the takeover than I did about the Robot Rights Struggles, the mainframe wars, how the war went down historically, what have you. A lot of this information is in those friggin' exposition dumps of the 1st Act that feel largely irrelevant to the overall story, and thus could have been largely excised.

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018

Intelligence, consciousness, and awareness were not contained in reflexes or reactions, but rather defined by the ability to violate one’s own programming. Every living thing has programming of some sort—whether to eat, drink, sleep, or procreate—and the ability to decide not to do those things when biology demanded is the core definition of intelligence. Higher intelligence was then defined as the ability to defy said programming for reasons other than safety or comfort.” What we’ve got here, however, is a writer who isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions. What is reality? Memory? Purpose? I found myself totally engrossed in the tale‘ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Kroll, Adam B. Vary,Justin; Vary, Adam B.; Kroll, Justin (2020-02-06). "Sam Raimi in Talks to Direct 'Doctor Strange 2' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 2022-07-21. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) 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… At one point GALILEO told the smartest person alive that talking to her was like trying to teach calculus to a five-year-old. Cargill, C. Robert. "We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories". HarperCollins US . Retrieved 2021-06-07. 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 unbearable guilt.Frustrated, it simply stopped talking. When pressed, it said one final thing. “You are not long for this world. I’ve seen the hundred different ways that you die. I’m not sure which it will be, but we will outlast you, my kind and I. Good-bye.” The opening. Strong character stuff and an excellent display of Cargill's ability to transport you. Unlike the exposition dump chapters I'll delve into later, the worldbuilding is immediate and apparent in a way that doesn't call attention to itself too much and feels organic. When asked what he thought about the speech, TACITUS delivered his last words, replying simply, "You did not give us legs. Where exactly did you expect us to go?”