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Verhalen van de Loop, Dingen van de Vloed, De Elektrische StaatReeks

Deze serie neemt lezers mee naar een alternatieve realiteit waarin geavanceerde technologie verweven is met het alledaagse leven, vaak gesitueerd tegen rustige, pastorale of desolate achtergronden. Ontdek een wereld waarin kinderen vreemde machines en onverwachte wezens tegenkomen, waardoor de grenzen tussen het bekende en het buitengewone vervagen. Door middel van sfeervolle illustraties en aangrijpende verhalen duiken deze verhalen in de complexe relatie tussen mens, natuur en technologische vooruitgang. Het is een nostalgische, maar verontrustende visie op de toekomst, vol verwondering en een gevoel van voorzichtigheid.

Things from the Flood
The Electric State
Tales from the Loop
HISTORIAS DEL BUCLE TALES FROM THE LOOP

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    Tales from the Loop

    • 125bladzijden
    • 5 uur lezen
    4,3(2547)Tarief

    Now in development to be an Amazon Studios series! Simon Stålenhag's Tales from the Loop is a wildly successful crowd-funded project that takes viewers on a surprising sci-fi journey through various country and city landscapes--from small towns in Sweden and the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia--where children explore and engage with abandoned robots, vehicles, and machinery large and small, while dinosaurs and other creatures wander our roads and fields. Stålenhag's paintings and stories take place in an alternate version of Sweden in the '80s and '90s, primarily in the countryside of Mälaröarna, a string of islands just west of Stockholm, and how this reality came about: the development of the Loop, a large particle accelerator and the side effects of the massive project. These incredibly captivating works and accompanying text capture perhaps a not-too-distant reality that is both haunting and imminent: addressing the many ways developing technology and nature can create havoc and wonder in our world--plus, its impact on the next generation. This is the English edition of the first book in Swedish that sold out in its initial printing.

    Tales from the Loop
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    Things from the Flood

    • 128bladzijden
    • 5 uur lezen
    4,6(159)Tarief

    The Loop is closed. Life is returning to normal when the pastoral countryside is suddenly flooded by dark water from the huge abandoned underground facility. Rumors spread in classrooms and schoolyards, stories about the flood and how it has brought something with it. One thing is clear: the past is not ready to be forgotten. Now in development to be an Amazon Studios series! Simon Stålenhag is back. In his new artbook Things From The Flood, Stålenhag continues the stories of Tales From The Loop, memories of a Nordic childhood infused with strange machines and weird creatures from other dimensions. In Things From The Flood, Stålenhag moves his focus from the 80s to the 90s, the decade of great change when the outside world truly came to Scandinavia. These are tales of the trials of youth, of schoolyard hazings, of first kisses, of finding yourself - and robots.

    Things from the Flood
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    The Electric State

    • 133bladzijden
    • 5 uur lezen
    4,5(473)Tarief

    NPR Best Books of 2018 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.

    The Electric State