Doug Chiang, Orson Scott Card

Robota (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A captivating tale of action, romance, and betrayal, Robota features breathtaking illustrations that add a cinematic scope to every page. Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, collaborated with artist Doug Chiang on the story and wrote the narrative for this visionary novel and art book. This edition includes additional, never-before-seen art that Chiang developed for a prospective Robota film. Gareth Edwards, a collaborator of Chiang's and director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Godzilla (2014), provides a new Preface.
An elaborate study in world-building that traces a human's journey through a preindustrial civilization, Robota explores the relationship between nature and technology. The hero, Caps, awakens with amnesia in a fantastic world of dinosaurs and talking animalsa land of enchantment dominated by giant robots and their sadistic general, Kaantur-Set, who is bent on human genocide. With the help of Juomes, a yeti-like hunter-beast, Caps must battle the tyrannical robots and rediscover his true identity.
Dover (2016) reprint of the edition originally published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2003.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486816371
• Artikelnr.: 46288324

Autorenporträt

Doug Chiang served as the concept artist for Lucasfilm on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the subsequent films in the franchise. Chiang was the design director for the earlier Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and also contributed to the Industrial Light and Magic films Terminator 2 and Forrest Gump.
Orson Scott Card is the author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning books Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, in addition to all of the books in the Enderverse series. His other science-fiction stories include The Tales of Alvin Maker.
Gareth Edwards is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, production designer, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing the 2014 version of Godzilla and the upcoming film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.