| 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, or http://www.dougchiang.com/robota/index.html) for links to short animated Robota teasers that are guaranteed to blow you away.
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