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Absofreakinglutely delightful. (That's for the benefit of all of our 8-year-olds in the audience.)
I honestly didn't know what to expect with Cargill's latest, be it great Fae fantasy or great Robot SF, but having just re-read Sea of Rust and getting a taste of pre-and-current robo-apocalypse in Day Zero, all tied in with a much later timeline of Sea of Rust, I really can't get much happier than this.
It's not just the time. It's the characters. Ezra and Pounce are GREAT together. An eight-year-ol ...more
I honestly didn't know what to expect with Cargill's latest, be it great Fae fantasy or great Robot SF, but having just re-read Sea of Rust and getting a taste of pre-and-current robo-apocalypse in Day Zero, all tied in with a much later timeline of Sea of Rust, I really can't get much happier than this.
It's not just the time. It's the characters. Ezra and Pounce are GREAT together. An eight-year-ol ...more
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Violent, vicious, and ultimately heartbreaking. If you've read Sea of Rust then you know the prequel novel can't very well be filled with hope and happy endings. For humans anyway, and thinking beings on their side.
And this isn't a story that is ultimately happy. But it has intensity in moments and glimpses of hopefulness, love, and heroic effort, which sometimes has to be enough.
Reminiscent of the excellent Sea of Rust, the characters in Day Zero are endearing, frightening, pitiful, and everyt ...more
And this isn't a story that is ultimately happy. But it has intensity in moments and glimpses of hopefulness, love, and heroic effort, which sometimes has to be enough.
Reminiscent of the excellent Sea of Rust, the characters in Day Zero are endearing, frightening, pitiful, and everyt ...more
Holy shit! This was the bomb!
We are in the world we have been introduced to in Sea of Rust, but before the Robocalypse. This time, we follow Pounce, a nanny bot in the shape of a tiger, as he finds out he can be shut on and off to his owners‘ desires. Nevertheless, he still is devoted to the child he was bought to raise, Ezra.
But then there is the big event that we‘ve already heard about in the other book: Isaactown, followed by (view spoiler) ...more
We are in the world we have been introduced to in Sea of Rust, but before the Robocalypse. This time, we follow Pounce, a nanny bot in the shape of a tiger, as he finds out he can be shut on and off to his owners‘ desires. Nevertheless, he still is devoted to the child he was bought to raise, Ezra.
But then there is the big event that we‘ve already heard about in the other book: Isaactown, followed by (view spoiler) ...more
So we know that humans lost. We’re in fact eradicated, and the robots and artificial intelligences continued on, creating their own cultures and societies (Sea of Rust).
But well before we meet Brittle searching for parts in the desert, C. Robert Cargill gives us the precipitating event years and years earlier that brings bots to dominance on Earth. The event being the murder of all the robots in a bot city called Isaactown, after Isaac, the first bot granted personhood rights. Consequently, arti ...more
But well before we meet Brittle searching for parts in the desert, C. Robert Cargill gives us the precipitating event years and years earlier that brings bots to dominance on Earth. The event being the murder of all the robots in a bot city called Isaactown, after Isaac, the first bot granted personhood rights. Consequently, arti ...more
4.5 stars
Given this is a prequel to the book Sea of Rust and so we know going in what was to ultimately come, this book still manages to contains feelings of hope and friendship amid all the destruction. ...more
Given this is a prequel to the book Sea of Rust and so we know going in what was to ultimately come, this book still manages to contains feelings of hope and friendship amid all the destruction. ...more
Pounce is a robot and a nanny for 8-year old Ezra. Pounce is not master of its own life. It‘s all bullshit and graffiti, no free choice. But Pounce loves Ezra. There’s a robot revolution, it’s the end of the world. Murder, mayhem and scary code. Pounce has to save Ezra and together they travel through dangerous ground to make it to safety.
I, Robot and Terminator meet Disney. Violence, death, murder, quite a lot of action and animated bipedal tigers and teddy bears. Quite the visual.
The robots s ...more
I, Robot and Terminator meet Disney. Violence, death, murder, quite a lot of action and animated bipedal tigers and teddy bears. Quite the visual.
The robots s ...more
Apr 13, 2021
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