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Short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke award, 2018.

One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017.

An action-packed postapocalyptic thriller from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.

Humankind is extinct. Wiped out in a global uprising by the very machines made to serve them. Now the world is controlled by One World Intelligences - vast mainframes that have assimilated the minds of millions of robots.

But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality, and Brittle - a loner and scavenger, focused solely on survival - is one of the holdouts.

Only individuality comes at a price, and after a near-deadly encounter with another AI, Brittle is forced to seek sanctuary. Not easy when an OWI has decided to lay siege to the nearest safe city.

Critically damaged, Brittle has to hold it together long enough to find the essential rare parts to make repairs - but as a robot's CPU gradually deteriorates, all their old memories resurface. For Brittle, that means one haunting memory in particular....

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.

©2018 C. Robert Cargill (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Limited Adventure Computer Science Fantasy Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Robotics Technology

Critic reviews

"Sea of Rust is a 40-megaton cruise missile of a novel - it'll blow you away and lay waste to your heart...visceral, relentless, breathtaking." (Joe Hill, Sunday Times best-selling author)
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Really great concept with a good start. Then a few stupid details creep in, I tried to push past them. Eventually the plot slides all the way off the rails

Starts so well

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I loved this book, it was a little different to what I thought the storyline was going to be, but that made it more enjoyable.

The narrator, Christy Meyer did an awesome job, first time listening to her and I would get another book that she reads.

I have the second book that is set in this universe in my wish list I’m now just waiting for it to be released.

Really enjoyed this book.

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I struggled to get to the end. I already knew it was p!as poor but I harboured a naive hope that something might pop up in the last pages to justify wasting hours of my life - it didn't only the inevitable hooks for a sequel. Don't go there, it ain't worth it.

F.T. Best Book of 2017 - in whose universe?

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I just loved this book! Really draws you in and keeps you there. The performance was not intrusive like some can be. My first completed book on here!

A great story, or is it a vision into the future?

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kind of struggling to get through, the storytelling is decent soothing voice of the narrator

decent story

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