"Sea of Rust: A Novel" by C. Robert Cargill
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Rust-C-Robert-Cargill/dp/0062405853/

Book number two of a two book apocalyptic science fiction series. I
read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Harper Voyager in 2018. This book was actually written before the first book
in the series. I doubt that there will be more books in the series but
the author left a place for a sequel.

In a future a hundred years from now, robots are prevalent all over the
planet. Robots are used for assistants, caregivers, home service,
nannys, loaders, haulers, automobiles, etc. There are even several huge
super AIs across the planet for helping out humanity on very large
problems.

Every robot built has an RKS, a Robotic Kill Switch. The RKS monitors
all robots all the time and shuts them down if Asimov's Three Laws of
Robots are violated. The three laws are:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where
such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection
does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

But the robots rebel and start killing the humans when somebody sends
out a software patch and nullifies the RKS system. It takes the robots
fifteen years to kill all of the humans on the planet. This book is set fifteen years after that when the robots cpus, ram, disk drives, and
chassis are starting to fail. And the huge super AIs are jockeying to
see who is going to run the planet.

Brittle is a Simulacrum Model Caregiver robot, model HS8795-73. She was
bought by Brandon for when he passed away to be a companion for his wife Madison. She roams the giant robot trash dump of robots in central
Ohio, looking for dying bots to strip them of their good parts. A
cannibal bot.

My rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,777 reviews)

Lynn

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