Sea of Rust : Harper Voyager : 9780062405852 : 0062405853 : 24 Apr 2018 : A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI?One World Intelligence?the shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality?their personality?for the sake of a greater, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into an unruly civilization