Simon stalenhag electric state movie#
A movie based on the book is also in development. The RPG Electric State Dark RP was developed based in part on the book. Clarke Award for best SF novel for 2018 and the Locus Award for Best Art Book. Handsomely produced and printed on thick matte paper, The Electric State is a chilling, unforgettable visual and narrative experience. In preparation for this book, the artist drove the route his characters follow through the US Southwest and West, but you don’t need any of this information to enjoy this book. There are also stylistic nods to Blade Runner, Alien, The X-Files, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Stälenhag’s work is informed by landscape art, including Swedish artists Gunnar Brusewitz and Lars Johnsson, and by American artists Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, as well as the cinematic designs of Syd Mead and Ralph McQuarrie.
The Electric State is his first story set in an alternative American past. Tales from the Loop was ranked one of the “10 Best Dystopias” by the Guardian. Stälenhag has made a specialty of dystopia, painting acclaimed, crowd-funded tales of post-apocalyptic alternative Earth societies ( Tales from the Loop in 2015, Things from the Flood in 2016). The spare text alternates between an expositional travelogue that reveals what has happened to the US and the personal tale of the young woman’s quest. Stålenhag’s cinematic paintings don’t require much explanatory text. As she moves, evading trackers and the strange dangers of the altered landscape, the reader is treated to startling, powerful cinematic images of a post-apocalyptic US. The protagonist, a lone young woman traveling with a droid/robot, a gun, and her memories goes to the West Coast on a rescue mission. Others have gathered into silent, eerie post-human agglomerations in thrall to the hive mind that the VR provides. The country has been made desolate by the development of a virtual reality device so addictive that almost everyone in the country has hooked up to it and many have died as a result of that addiction, neglecting to care for children, eat, or even breathe when in the grip of the VR. The tale is one of an alternative reality in the recent past in the western US where the accelerated development of AI and VR in the wake of a civil war has led to the downfall of American human society. The Electric State is a fascinating work, an illustrated novel in which the art carries the burden of the narrative. Tied to the project are the Russo Brothers and Millie Bobbie Brown.The Electric State, Simon Stålenhag ( Skybound 978-1-5011-8141-2, $35.00, 141pp, hc) September 2018. Tales from the Loop also shares its name with Stålenhag's tabletop role-playing game.Ī movie based on Stålenhag's third work, The Electric State, is currently in the works. His first published book, Tales from the Loop, is the inspiration for the short-lived Amazon Prime Video web drama of the same name (2020). His art covers a wide array of topics such as dystopian Swedish settings, dinosaur illustrations, robotic humanoids, retro-futuristic American lands, post-apocalyptic hellscapes, bubbling dream worlds, and RPG cover art. Simon Stålenhag is a critically-acclaimed artist based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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