The electric state
By: Simon Stålenhag
Contributors: Dunelind, Martin, translator
Edition: First Skybound books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781501181412
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Fiction; Robots; Teenage girls
Work titles: Passagen
Description: "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"--
Notes: Originally published in Sweden in 2017 by Fria Ligan AB -- back page.

Translated by Martin Dunelind.