Cargill, C Robert
Entry updated 29 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1975- ) US film critic, screenwriter and author whose first series, the Dreams and Shadows sequence beginning with Dreams and Shadows (2013), is set in a fantasy world whose protagonists are suffering from Amnesia, which blocks them from the Magic-filled realm of their past. He is of sf interest for Sea of Rust (2017), a broad-gauge Ruined-Earth Dystopia set in a world wiped clean of Homo sapiens, with Robots having become a new servant class under the rule of mainframe Computers with AI capabilities; one dissident robot revolts. Cargill's film criticism was composed mostly for the internet site Ain't It Cool News as by Massawyrm; his work as screenwriter includes co-authoring the script for Doctor Strange (2016) directed by Scott Derrickson. [JC]
C Robert Cargill
born San Antonio, Texas: 8 September 1975
works
series
Dreams and Shadows
- Dreams and Shadows (New York: Harper Voyager, 2013) [Dreams and Shadows: hb/Shutterstock]
- Queen of the Dark Things (New York: Harper Voyager, 2015) [Dreams and Shadows: hb/Shutterstock]
Sea of Rust
- Sea of Rust (New York: Harper Voyager, 2017) [Sea of Rust: hb/Dominic Harman]
- Day Zero (New York: Harper Voyager, 2021) [Sea of Rust: hb/]
- All the Ash we Leave Behind (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2025) [Sea of Rust: hb/Dominic Harman]
individual titles
- We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories (New York: Harper Voyager, 2018) [coll: hb/John Picacio]
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