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Dec 1, 2017 · Simon Stålenhag. 4.44. 5,772 ratings958 reviews. In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world ...
Sep 25, 2018 · Reviewed by: Craig DiLouie. Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State matches the notable Swedish artist’s futuristic digital paintings with an original story to produce an awe-inspiring vision of a species committing suicide, perhaps to be reborn as something new. Stålenhag first achieved note through his paintings of stereotypical towns and ...
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Sep 25, 2018 · In the end, The Electric State is a striking and strangely compelling work of science fiction gothic. Providing a series of snapshots of an alternate Earth of yesteryear, it tells the story of how that world ended. The book is dystopian '90s at its most bleak. It's the gloom of 'Twin Peaks' and the detached alienation of Nirvana’s 'Nevermind ...
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Oct 21, 2018 · They are artifacts recovered from a dream of 1980's and 90's Sweden, of a pastel suburban past littered with robots, spaceships and dinosaur bones. His newest, The Electric State, is different. It ...
- Jason Sheehan
But after a few days, I keep finding myself drawn back to The Electric State. I keep reading people saying that we need a movie for this book, but I would say that they should consider that the unique beauty of art and literature is that, your imagination creates the greatest movie.
“Stålenhag is fantastically well-known as an illustrator, and this a major work for him. It’s a beautiful book, and I think really points to what science fiction publishing could be doing, I think.”
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Oct 6, 2019 · The Electric State, Simon Stålenhag ( Skybound 978-1-5011-8141-2, $35.00, 141pp, hc) September 2018. Cover by Simon Stålenhag. The Electric State is a fascinating work, an illustrated novel in which the art carries the burden of the narrative. The tale is one of an alternative reality in the recent past in the western US where the ...
