Series: Book 1 in the Sea of Rust series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary
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...