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The electric state

  • Simon Stålenhag

5.00

3 ratings

"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"--

Genres

  • Voyages and travels
  • Fiction
  • Robots
  • Teenage girls
  • West (u.s.), fiction
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • History
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About the author

  • Simon Stålenhag

    5.00

    3 ratings · 7 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    First Skybound books/Atria Books hardcover edition.

    2018

  • Edition cover

    Atria Books

    2018

  • Edition cover

    浙江文艺出版社

    2018

  • Edition cover

    Atria Books

    2018

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Simon & Schuster, Limited

2018

  • Edition cover

    Simon & Schuster, Limited

    2018