bookafnd reviewed The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
disturbing, and atmospheric
5 stars
it's a book about a road trip whose point isn't clear until the end. along the way there are many strange retrofuturistic horrors—beautifully illustrated
Hardcover, 133 pages
English language
Published Nov. 22, 2018 by Skybound Books.
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.
it's a book about a road trip whose point isn't clear until the end. along the way there are many strange retrofuturistic horrors—beautifully illustrated