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Another action-packed apocalyptic thriller from the co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange

In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure—from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust—noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world. It's a day like any other. Except . . . the world is about to end. It's on this day that Pounce, a stylish "nannybot” fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, disco...

In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure—from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust—noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world.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 o...

Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the visual inventiveness of Guillermo del Toro, and the shocking miasma of William S. Burroughs.ix months have passed since the wizard Colby lost his best fri...

Wander through a darkly wondrous landscape . . . In this hair-raising collection of short fiction, C. Robert Cargill, the critically acclaimed author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things, conjures ten shimmering tales of dark imagination that probe the deep fears dwelling beneath the surface of our quotidian lives. Angels and demons, predators and prey, the mundane and the macabre, the living and the dead—all are the stuff of these enti...

*One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017*An action-packed post-apocalyptic thriller from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE APOCALYPSE, THE WORLD IS A WASTELAND. HUMANS ARE EXTINCT, ERADICATED BY THE MACHINES THEY BUILT.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 some machines choose to remain independent. These intrepid resisters are outcasts, solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into an unrul...

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Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his debut, Dreams and Shadows, in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monstersSix months have passed since the wizard Colby lost his best friend to an army of fairies from the Limestone Kingdom, a realm of mystery and darkness beyond our own. But in vanquishing these creatures and banning them from Austin, Colby sacrific...

In the debut novel DREAMS AND SHADOWS, screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill takes us beyond the veil, through the lives of Ewan and Colby, young men whose spirits have been enmeshed with the otherworld from a young age.This brilliantly crafted narrative - part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William Burroughs - follows the boys from their star-crossed adolescences to their haunted adulthoods. Cargill's tour-de-force ...

A wonderful modern tale of magic and mystery, an amazing storytelling debutThere is another world beyond our own . . . nce bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, now Ewan's an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, while Colby cannot escape an innocent wish. But while they left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies and fo...

A superb contemporary debut fantasy, a dreamlike yet visceral journey through a Faerie land like no other.

Imagining a future in which no hope remains in this evocative post-apocalyptic robot western, from the screenwriter behind the Marvel movie, "Doctor Strange".

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