Robota

author: Doug Chiang
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.65
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/03/15
date added: 2019/03/15
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review:
'Robota' by artist Doug Chiang with text by Orson Scott Card is a book of beautiful illustrations that kind of feels like a movie pitch.

In a weird world ruled by robots, a man named Caps keeps waking up in a regeneration chamber. He forgets what happened before and keeps reliving things. He decides to overthrow the robots and assembles a motley crew of beings, including Juomes, a kind of ape/yeti creature, and a small monkey-like creature named Rend. There are others, and Caps will need them because the head robot Kaantur-Set has a secret about Caps.

Included are some additional art for the film pitch with some of the characters looking like familiar actors. There are also some pages from a proposed comic book.

It's kind of a space epic in the style of Burroughs. I liked the first 2/3 of it, then I felt like the story fell apart a bit. Regardless, the story is only here to show off the art, and the full color paintings are really nice. This gets a 3 for story and a 4 for art.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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