There are no biological life-forms left, all destroyed in an AI revolution that went too far, like overwhelming majority of earlier revolutions. What is Sea of Rust about? Imagine the future where Earth is a dusty husk of its former self. It is a fast-paced, engaging reimagining of the social evolutionary concept that the world we live in is a ruthless, cruel one, in which survival of the fittest remains the only rule. You get the gist, I believe: Sea of Rust is a kaleidoscopic collection of modern pop-cultural inspirations and references, subversively employed to tell a story as old as human culture: the story of patricide and primal sin, of determinism and hope. A comic book reader can also detect a more than passing affinity to Mark Millar’s pessimistic vision from Old Man Logan. Seriously! While I was reading this book, I had basically the original concept art from New Hope in my mind □ There’s also a noticeable shadow of Matrix here, too, though in ochre, burnt sienna and beiges instead of cold greens and blacks. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts and George Miller’s Mad Max series, fostered by Fritz Lang and Ralph McQuarrie. Cargill’s Sea of Rust is an intriguing spiritual offspring of M.R.
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