Name: Things From the Flood
ISBN: 9781982150716

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Why This Clicks

Pastoral Unease

A pastoral landscape, impossible technology, and uncanny creatures make for a quietly haunting speculative read.

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The strange friction between rural Sweden and vast technological ambition
Uncanny machines and creatures in an unsettling speculative world

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A haunting atmosphere that lingers beyond the final page
A blend of pastoral calm and technological strangeness

Book Details

Authors: Simon Stålenhag
Publisher: Saga Press
Published: July 7, 2020
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic · Cyberpunk
Reading lane: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

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Conceptual Art
Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Alternate History

About This Book

From the author of the imaginative and “awe-inspiring” ( New York Journal of Books ) The Electric State— now a Netflix film— comes the haunting sequel to his remarkable Tales from the Loop . Welcome back to the Loop. In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator in the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop and celebrated its completion. But Mälaröarna and the w...

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From the author of the imaginative and “awe-inspiring” ( New York Journal of Books ) The Electric State— now a Netflix film— comes the haunting sequel to his remarkable Tales from the Loop . Welcome back to the Loop. In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator in the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop and celebrated its completion. But Mälaröarna and the world would never be the same. Infused with strange machines and unfathomable creatures, Things from the Flood is transcendent look at technology that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.