Rad Robots: A Celebration of Awesome Automatons: the Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - Hardcover

Simon Furman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856268551 ISBN 13: 9781856268554

Publisher: Kyle Cathie, 2009

Synopsis

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

About this title

Book Description:

A collection of robots from popular culture, fiction, films, TV, animation and toys. It includes such chapters as Robots Go Galactic, When Robots Go Bad, Spaced-Out Robots and Robots with Dangerous Curves. It is suitable for robot fans.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kyle Cathie
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1856268551
• ISBN 13: 9781856268554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160