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Release date Australia
June 25th, 2009
Author
Pages
160
Dimensions (mm)
250x240
Illustrations
col. Illustrations
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Kyle Cathie
ISBN-13
9781856268554
Product ID
2784347
Description
A light-hearted roundup of robots in popular culture, fiction, films, TV, animation and toys.
From the earliest robots through to the 21st Century's cutting-edge automatons, Simon Furman highlights the influential, the radical and the downright weird: from Robby to Gigolo Joe, from Asimov to Douglas Adams, from Robot Sparky to Transformers.
Chapters include Robots Go Galactic, When Robots Go Bad, Spaced-Out Robots and Robots with Dangerous Curves.
Packed with stunning color photographs and infused with Simon Furman's enthusiasm and wit, this book will be a treasure trove for all robot fans.
Author Biography
Simon Furman is a writer for comic books and TV animation, his name inextricably linked to Transformers. He has written literally hundreds of stories about the war-torn 'robots in disguise'. In the TV animation field, Simon has written for Beast Wars, Dan Dare and X-Men: Evolution. His recent writing work includes Torchwood, Terminator 2, Death's Head 3.0, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Wallace & Gromit. Simon is the author of Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, You Can Draw Transformers, Transformers: The Movie Guide and a Dr. Who audio adventure, The Axis of Insanity.
From the earliest robots through to the 21st Century's cutting-edge automatons, Simon Furman highlights the influential, the radical and the downright weird: from Robby to Gigolo Joe, from Asimov to Douglas Adams, from Robot Sparky to Transformers.
Chapters include Robots Go Galactic, When Robots Go Bad, Spaced-Out Robots and Robots with Dangerous Curves.
Packed with stunning color photographs and infused with Simon Furman's enthusiasm and wit, this book will be a treasure trove for all robot fans.
Author Biography
Simon Furman is a writer for comic books and TV animation, his name inextricably linked to Transformers. He has written literally hundreds of stories about the war-torn 'robots in disguise'. In the TV animation field, Simon has written for Beast Wars, Dan Dare and X-Men: Evolution. His recent writing work includes Torchwood, Terminator 2, Death's Head 3.0, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Wallace & Gromit. Simon is the author of Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, You Can Draw Transformers, Transformers: The Movie Guide and a Dr. Who audio adventure, The Axis of Insanity.
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A magazine look at movie bots that have graced our screens. Light on detail and targeted at headline readers this book still runs the gambit of movie ( and TV) robots through the 20th century and into the twenty first.
Hardback and gloss photo's make it a worthwhile addition to your library if robots are your thing.