Robota
Academy awardwinning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful amnesiac named Caps as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in which a dwindling human population battles a society of merciless robot warriors. Aided by talking animals and stalked by terrifying hunter robots, Caps slowly rises to fulfill an...
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Academy award winning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful amnesiac named Caps as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in which a dwindling human population battles a society of merciless robot warriors. Aided by talking animals and stalked by terrifying hunter robots, Caps slowly rises to fulfill an awesome destiny. Integrating word and image, Card's masterful storytelling is interwoven with 75 pieces of Chiang's wildly imagined, meticulously rendered art. Packaged in a dramatic metallic case, this unusual and powerful collaboration is tailor-made to thrill.
Foreword4Prologue7Chapter IA Sleep and a Forgetting19Chapter IIThe Hand of Juomes37Chapter IIIThe Cubing Jewel43Chapter IVThe Tame and the Wild61Chapter VCities of Stone and Air79Chapter VIFont Prime and the Answer101Chapter VIIHoles and Passages127Chapter VIIIThe Traitor and the Servant133Chapter IXWar of Squirrels and Spiders139Chapter XThe Ghost in the Machine153Chapter XIBrothers and Sisters171Acknowledgments176
\ From Barnes & NobleThe Barnes & Noble Review\ Robota is the breathtaking culmination of nearly 30 years of dreams and visions from Academy Award–winning artist Doug Chiang, who most recently served as design director for the Star Wars prequel movies. The stunning artwork and story line by Chiang are reinforced by text from Orson Scott Card, the master storyteller who penned the wildly popular Alvin Maker saga, as well as Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. \ The setting for this fully illustrated science fiction novel is Orpheus, a world that, millennia earlier, was the fourth planet in the solar system. Thousands of years before its destruction, a race of sentient robots ruled over all carbon-based life. All humans, hunter-beasts (large, gorillalike creatures), monkeys, and jodhpurs (massive dinosaurs) that refused to be domesticated were systematically hunted down and killed.\ Enter Caps, a man with no memory, who -- along with a sentient monkey named Rend and a wise hunter-beast named Juome -- must somehow figure out a way to stop the robots from destroying all life on the planet. As Caps gets closer to Font Prime, the king of the robots, he begins to recall impossible memories that could put not only himself but also all life forms on Orpheus in jeopardy.\ Beautiful, extraordinary, and awe-inspiring, Robota is unique and absolutely amazing. Visit Chiang's web site (www.dougchiang.com) for links to short animated Robota teasers that are guaranteed to blow you away. Paul Goat Allen\ \ \
