All the minds connected to a network began melding together working towards one goal. The linking of human minds through networking created a hive mind. Unfortunately, there was an unseen consequence. Instead of wasting human lives, countries built massive drones that could be remotely controlled by people hundreds of miles away. Through flashbacks, she builds out what caused everything to spiral. She is also the light of knowledge that reveals the path history took to reach this point. Michelle is the realist who shows the reader how dark this world has gotten. The unsettling claws it's way to the forefront as the story progresses from Orwellian posters to fields of people trapped in VR headsets. A highway rest stop looking out on snowcapped mountains being overshadowed by a rotting drone corpse is a perfect image of what this society has become. The unsettling is combined with vintage style. Skip looks like a mascot one would see at a Disney park: a grand smile painted on his face and a retro haircut that screams Astro Boy. Much like the Iron Giant, her robot named Skip injects a sense of safety into the story like everything else Stalenhag creates, Skip is secretly part of the nightmare. Starting in the Mojave Desert, readers follow a young woman accompanied by a robot as she tries to reach an unknown destination, avoiding monstrous drones prowling through a crumbling society. The story is equal parts Wall-e and Matrix in a way that creates a sense of safety before cranking up the nightmare factor. If had been in the producer's chair The Electric State would have been rushed into production. His previous book Tales from The Loop has been made into an equally mysterious show for Amazon. Stalenhag is no stranger to the realm of science fiction thrillers. The world of The Electric State lives somewhere between the picture books of youth and graphic novels of adulthood. The pictures are part of the story, each picture flows along as if they were a page of words painted for the eyes. The art is not merely visualization of the words, but rather the next step in the story. Stalenhag perfectly weaves in the written word with huge splash pages to pull the reader into his world. That is exactly what Stalenhag has done with The Electric State. The best artists use their medium to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Whether it's a family portrait or a big-screen blockbuster, all art tells a story regardless of the medium. Stalenhag takes readers into a broken world and shows us how dark our own could soon become if we aren't careful.Īrt is all about story. Within the pages is the picture book science fiction fans never knew they needed. The cover fuses together rusted dystopian machines with childish Disney-esque robots. The Electric State is not what you expect. While the Intercranial Intelligence draws more and more networked brains under its influence and gorges itself on their processing power, Mia Tannhaus writes about birds.A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated scienceįiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. Cadmean Fandoms: The Electric State - Simon Stålenhag
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