Robota

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 animals?a 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.