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Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Jul. 9th, 2018 09:19 pmSea of Rust
3/5. There are two kinds of people in the world: ones who are totally going to get what I'm about to say, and ones who . . . won't.
So this is a book about robot society after the extermination of the human race, and I read it because it sounded really soothing. You know, no people in it.
Turns out I was half-wrong – it does have people in it, as the narrator and most of the characters are extremely human-ish. Which – here I go again – is still my problem with robot books. Write me weird robots! Write me robots who are people but who are not humans! These robots are made in the image of humans, in some cases with the emotions of humans, and though the practicalities of their existence – parts wearing down, charging, etc – have some peculiarities, the drives are purely recognizable and purely familiar. And thus not that interesting.
This was kind of soothing, though.
3/5. There are two kinds of people in the world: ones who are totally going to get what I'm about to say, and ones who . . . won't.
So this is a book about robot society after the extermination of the human race, and I read it because it sounded really soothing. You know, no people in it.
Turns out I was half-wrong – it does have people in it, as the narrator and most of the characters are extremely human-ish. Which – here I go again – is still my problem with robot books. Write me weird robots! Write me robots who are people but who are not humans! These robots are made in the image of humans, in some cases with the emotions of humans, and though the practicalities of their existence – parts wearing down, charging, etc – have some peculiarities, the drives are purely recognizable and purely familiar. And thus not that interesting.
This was kind of soothing, though.
