Sea of Rust: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created with a war that has destroyed mankind with this evocative post-apocalyptic ‘robot western’ from your critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.

It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder from the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is normally extinct. Every man, woman, and child continues to be liquidated by a worldwide uprising devised by the machines humans designed and created to provide about Sea of Rust: A Novel them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI-One World Intelligence-the shared awareness of an incredible number of robots, uploaded into one large mainframe brain. However, not all robots are prepared to cede their individuality-their personality-for the sake of a larger, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo devices wandering among several underground outposts who have created into an unruly civilization of rogue AIs in the wasteland that was once our world.

Among these resisters is Brittle, a scavenger automatic robot trying to hold a deteriorating body and mind functional in a world that has shed all meaning. Although struggling to experience emotions like a individual, Brittle is usually haunted from the awful crimes the robot inhabitants perpetrated on mankind. As Brittle roams the ocean of Rust, a big swath of territory that was after the Midwest, the loner automatic robot slowly involves conditions with horrifyingly fresh and vibrant memories-and nearly unbearable guilt.

Sea of Rust is both a harsh story of survival and an optimistic experience. A vividly thought portrayal of supreme destruction and desperate tenacity, it boldly imagines another in which no hope remains, yet in which a humanlike AI strives to find purpose among the ruins.