Sea of Rust A Novel
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
05.09.2017
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
448 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780062405845
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 OWIOne World Intelligencethe shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individualitytheir personalityfor 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 was once our world.
One of these resisters is Brittle, a scavenger robot trying to keep a deteriorating mind and body functional in a world that has lost all meaning. Although unable to experience emotions like a human, Brittle is haunted by the terrible crimes the robot population perpetrated on humanity. As Brittle roams the Sea of Rust, a large swath of territory that was once the Midwest, the loner robot slowly comes to terms with horrifyingly raw and vivid memoriesand nearly unbearable guilt.
Sea of Rust is both a harsh story of survival and an optimistic adventure. A vividly imagined portrayal of ultimate destruction and desperate tenacity, it boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, yet where a humanlike AI strives to find purpose among the ruins.
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Dark dystopian book about AIs struggling in a human-like way, though somewhat anticlimactic
I saw someone describing this book as anticlimactic and I have to agree. It took me a long time to get into it, because it never really picked up pace. The initial throwbacks explaining how the world came to be were interesting, the middle part intriguing, but it fell flat again towards the end - despite all the shooting and exploding. There were two plottwist I did not see coming, one at the beginning, one at the end. I liked those. Nevertheless I've got to admit I had kind of a hard time reading the rest. It was also a lot darker than I expected. Almost depressing at times, but not quite because it did not make me emotional at all? It's got AIs struggling in a human-like way: failing drives creating some sort of dementia, damaged cores and RAM and wiring leading to PTBS like flashbacks, hallucinations etc. And it's got philosophical questions about what a God is and what makes us unique, some ethical and moral disputes... Usually that's a perfect mix for me. But somehow the book failed to deliver in all of these aspects. It was very much a thinking book and barely an emotion book at all while trying to be the opposite. Combine that with the dystopian-approach to everything and it just didn't do it for me. Sadly, Brittle wasn't someone I cared about.
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