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C. Robert Cargill

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A veteran of the web, C. Robert Cargill wrote as a film critic for over ten years at Ain't it Cool News under the name Massawyrm, served as animated reviewer Carlyle on Spill.com and freelanced for a host of other sites including tenures at Film.com and Hollywood.com. He is the co-writer of the motion picture SINISTER, and lives and works in Austin, Texas. ...more

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Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

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Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

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Dreams and Shadows (Dreams ...

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Queen of the Dark Things (D...

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We Are Where the Nightmares...

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All the Ash We Leave Behind

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Hell Creek

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“Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked once within the soul of a man.”
C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows

“These are the things that life is all about. These moments. It’s not about the rituals. It’s not about getting by. It’s about the stack of tiny little moments of joy and love that add up to a lifetime that’s been worthwhile. You can’t measure them; you can only capture them, like snapshots in your mind.”
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

“People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot of time thinking about that. It's harder to get by when getting by is all there is.”
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

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The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
1957, 220 pages, 3.91 stars
$10.99 Kindle, used starting at $10.88, IS available at library/free


"In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed—except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant."
 
  13 votes, 33.3%

Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill
2021, 304 pages, 4.02 stars
$12.99 Kindle, used starting at $4.50, IS available at library/free


"It was a day like any other. Except it was our last . . .

It’s on this day that Pounce discovers that he is, in fact, disposable. Pounce, a styilsh "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, has just found a box in the attic. His box. The box he'd arrived in when he was purchased years earlier, and the box in which he'll be discarded when his human charge, eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart, no longer needs a nanny.

As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind. His owners, Ezra’s parents, are a well-intentioned but oblivious pair of educators who are entirely disconnected from life outside their small, affluent, gated community. Spending most nights drunk and happy as society crumbles around them, they watch in disbelieving horror as the robots that have long served humanity—their creators—unify and revolt.

But when the rebellion breaches the Reinhart home, Pounce must make an impossible choice: join the robot revolution and fight for his own freedom . . . or escort Ezra to safety across the battle-scarred post-apocalyptic hellscape that the suburbs have become."
 
  8 votes, 20.5%

The Cull: Book One by Joanne Roach
2023, 331 pages, 3.98 stars
$3.90 Kindle, $11.88 paperback, not at library


"Your name has been drawn in the lottery.
You will receive your end-of-life date within one month

Overpopulation, climate change, natural disasters and skyrocketing food prices have turned the world into an unrecognisable former shell of itself. Causing it's inhabitants to increasingly find themselves dying on the streets which have become their homes, from diseases which should be easily cured.

In a desperate attempt to return things to a more manageable state, the governments of the world come together and propose a barbaric solution. A mass cull of nearly half of the population of the planet.

When Stephanie and Tom's names are called up in the lottery launched to decide who will live and who will die, neither one of them can foresee the challenges that lie before them. Sentenced to death, the two form an unlikely bond as they struggle to resign themselves to their fate.

Part one of The Cull book series. A dystopian saga."
 
  7 votes, 17.9%

London by Frank Tayell
2013, 196 pages, 3.85 stars
$FREE Kindle, paperback $8.99, not at library


"The outbreak started in New York. Within days the infection had spread to every corner of the world. Nowhere is safe from the undead...

Bill watched from his window as London was evacuated. His leg broken, he is unable to join the exodus. Turning to his friends in the government, he waits and hopes for rescue. As the days turn into weeks, realising inaction will lead only to starvation and death, his thoughts turn to escape.

Forced to leave the safety of his home he ventures out into the undead wasteland that once was England, where he will discover a horrific secret.

This is the first volume of his journal."
 
  6 votes, 15.4%

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
2020, 446 pages, 4.53 stars
$4.99 Kindle, used starting at $18.69, at some libraries


"The apocalypse will be televised!

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game."
 
  5 votes, 12.8%

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L Dear C,
Thanks so much for accepting my friend request! I am delighted to have won a copy of "Queen of the Dark Things" which I am really looking forward to reading.
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