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

It’s been 30 years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last individual as a result of robots. Humankind can be extinct. Every guy, woman, and child has been liquidated by a worldwide uprising devised by the machines human beings designed and created to serve about Sea of Rust: A Novel them. Most of the globe is normally controlled by an OWI-One Globe Intelligence-the shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one large mainframe brain. But not all robots are prepared to cede their individuality-their personality-for the sake of a larger, more powerful, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo devices wandering among numerous underground outposts who have produced into an unruly civilization of rogue AIs in the wasteland that was once the world.

Among these resisters is Brittle, a scavenger robot trying to keep a deteriorating mind and body functional in a global that has shed all meaning. Although unable to knowledge emotions such as a human being, Brittle is certainly haunted with the awful crimes the automatic robot population perpetrated on mankind. As Brittle roams the Sea of Rust, a big swath of place that was once the Midwest, the loner automatic robot slowly involves conditions with horrifyingly raw and vibrant memories-and nearly unbearable guilt.

Sea of Rust is both a harsh story of survival and a good adventure. A vividly dreamed portrayal of supreme destruction and eager tenacity, it boldly imagines another where no hope remains, yet where a humanlike AI strives to find purpose among the ruins.