“I didn’t know I had something I wanted to write until I realized these robots are driven by two pilots, and what happens when one of those people dies? What happens to the leftovers? Then it became a story about loss, moving on after loss, and dealing with survivor’s guilt," Beacham said. He decided to pursue the concept further after coming up with the idea of human co-pilots who’d need to operate their robot as a team, which added a new thematic dimension. “They just sort of materialized out of the fog, these vast godlike things,” Beacham said. Then he imagined an equally large robot gearing up to fight the beast. ![]() ![]() As he looked out at the Ferris wheel on the city’s eponymous pier, he pictured a looming sea monster. ![]() One foggy day in 2007, Beacham-who’d recently moved to California-was walking along Santa Monica Beach.
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