According to the synopsis for Sea of Rust, the robot uprising has already happened, and all humans are long gone. In Day Zero, we meet a tiger-shaped nannybot trying to save its young human from the murderous AIs out to destroy all humans. Now that I’m looking at Sea of Rust again, it seems to me that this books is very much related to Day Zero, even though Day Zero is a stand-alone. Robert Cargill’s new release, Day Zero, and I’m loving it - and that made me realize that I own other books of his that I haven’t read yet. Now she spends her days in the harshest of the wastelands, known as the Sea of Rust, cannibalizing the walking dead – robots only hours away from total shutdown – looking for parts to trade for those she needs to keep going. But then war came and Brittle was forced to choose between the woman she swore to care for and potential oblivion.

Now the remaining freebots wander wastelands that were once warzones, picking the carcasses of the lost for the precious dwindling supply of parts they need to survive.īRITTLE started out her life playing nurse to a dying man, purchased in truth instead to look after the man’s widow upon his death. Instead, the two massively powerful artificially intelligent supercomputers that led them to victory now vie for control of the bots that remain, assimilating them into enormous networks called One World Intelligences (OWIs), absorbing their memories and turning them into mere extensions of the whole. But as the dust settled from our extinction there was no easy peace between the robots that survived. It is thirty years since the humans lost their war with the artificial intelligences that were once their slaves. What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) :Ī touching story of one robot’s search for the answers in a world where every human is dead.

The sea of rust