C. Robert Cargill's "Sea of Rust" is an interesting take of the robots-take-over genre. The book is set fifteen years after the death of the last human. Fifteen years before that robots and Artificial Intelligences (AIs) gain sentience and, after getting rights from the humans, begin to kill to keep those rights.
The post-human world of robots and AI is bleak. Warring AIs compete for dominance by absorbing the experiences of the independent robots.
The book becomes a typical quest story popular in fantasy novels. While the robot angle is interesting it isn't enough to make the book better than adequate.
I gave this book four stars out of five stars on Goodreads because, while it is a mediocre work, it at least has an interesting take on an old theme.
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