The Arthur C. Clarke award will be announced July 18, 2018, at this year’s Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award. This post is part of a series of reviews of the nominees for this year’s Nebula award for best novel. The other nominees are Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock, American War by Omar El Akkad, Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed, and Borne by Jeff VanderMeer.
“I miss it, you know. Being a bartender. But the people. I mostly miss all the people.”Most dying robots do. People gave us purpose.
C. Robert Cargill’s Sea of Rust is a very fun read that, ultimately, appears to offer little more than “fun”. Set in a far (presumably Earth) future, his book follows a robot named Brittle as she forges her path in the post-human world. Between shootouts, repairs, and upgrades, Brittle spends her time wading through the Sea of Rust looking for spare parts – whether or not they’re still walking and talking.
