The Electric State
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NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
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3 primary booksTales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, The Electric State
Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, The Electric State is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Simon Stålenhag and Nils Hintze.
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Loved the story and loved the imagery. Dystopic and eerily dark. Reading along with the soundtrack is quite where experience. https://simonstalenhag.bandcamp.com/album/the-electric-state
This is more of an art book than a book but I always knew that going in. The images are absolutely striking in their depictions of the world described here. They literally leapt off the page so many times. Highly recommend for art lovers and scifi fans
