My Eclectic Reading Interests
I’m reading Sea of Rust , by C. Robert Cargill. It’s a post-war, post apocalyptic, post-human world. The machines won the war and got rid of us all because we didn’t treat them well. But things aren’t turning out as planned. Sometimes liberation is awfully confining. The machines are suffering existential angst because it turns out machines don’t treat machines any better than humans did . . . and to make things worse there are a couple of badass mainframes rounding up liberation loving machines for spare parts. And as if that isn’t enough, there is a shortage of WD-40. What else could go wrong? I might be confusing that last one with something else, but you get the idea. It’s truly amazing how human-like these oppressed machines are. It’s as if we are still around. I think the author wants to say something profound about the plight of humanity, and to do so he needs all the machines to be as human as possible. After all, readers don’t care about alien existential angst.