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Doug Chiang's Robota

Posted by michael on from the floyd-not-looking-where-he-was-going dept.

inherent writes "Doug Chiang's studio has released a trailer for his upcoming book. The book is a collaboration with Sci-Fi author Orson Scott Card of Ender's Game fame, and will include 75 pieces of Chiang's artwork. Chiang is the Concept Art Director at Industrial Light and Magic (and thus the concept art guy for the Star Wars prequels). Here is a previous slashdot story on him with a link to an interview."

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  1. Re:very familiar by grug0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason that the hero with amnesia archetype is so common is because it solves the biggest problem of science fiction writing: exposition. Having the hero suffer from amnesia places him in the same position of unfamiliarity as the reader, and both can be "educated" at once by the writer.