REVIEWBOOK
ROBOT TAKEOVER
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There’s something a little bit camp about robots
isn’t there? From the buxom 1950’s homeliness of
The Jetsons’ Rosey to the inane clatter and chatter
of C3PO from Star Wars, to the out and out diva
that is Borg Queen from Star Trek.
Humanity has fallen in love with robots lock, stock
and circuit breakers. We’ve fallen in love and our
fascination with technology is voracious as they’ve
excited and terrified us in equal measure in
celluloid or come to rely on them in our real lives as
Siri et al start to rule our days - regardless of which
decade you were born, robots have been a part of
our future – a future we’re racing towards like never
before.
Whether we we’re hiding behind the sofa to the
Daleks or Arnie’s Terminator or getting an
emotional tingle from WALL-E, robots are the stuff
of legend and Ana Matronic’s new book Robot
Takeover carefully and beautifully explores 100 of
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the most famous over 224 pages in full glossy
colour.
Over her 4-page foreword Scissor Sister singer Ana
Matronic, clearly demonstrates her passion for
robots from her introduction to them from her
childhood in the 70s to spending every penny of her
Starbuck’s wage on “cybersexy fashion moments”. It
is fair to say she wants, lives and breaths robots.
This book is her definitive list of robots that have
inspired and petrified.
Some are so ingrained popular culture, like Darth
Vader, Robocop and Hal “hello Dave” 9000; they
hardly need introducing but then there are the
other lesser known creations like the ridiculously
impractical looking B9 Environmental Control
Robot from Lost In Space or the smart aleck Twiki
from Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
JAKE HOOK