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The Breathtaking Horror of 'The Electric State'

Not all nightmares are so easy to wake up from. An exploration of Simon Stålenhag’s brilliant worldbuilding artbook ‘The Electric State.’ --- Buy ‘The Electric State’: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-State-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1501181416/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Buy ‘Tales from the Loop’: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392 Buy ‘Things from the Flood’: https://www.amazon.com/Things-from-the-Flood/dp/1471194434/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Follow Simon Stålenhag: https://www.instagram.com/simon_stalenhag/ The Electric State is a beautiful nightmare. I don’t know how else to describe it. I could say it’s an artbook by the brilliant artist Simon Stålenhag that explores an alternate version of the United States in the late 90s. This is true. I could say it’s a story where a young woman and a small robot venture across a ruined landscape littered with the skeletons of terrifying machines. This is also true. I could say it’s a poignant warning of how runaway consumerism can have apocalyptic consequences. This, I believe, is true as well. Yet none of these descriptions tells the whole. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll dive deep into this masterpiece of sci-fi worldbuilding. Now, let’s enter the world of The Electric State. 0:00 Enter The Electric State 1:10 A Girl and Her Robot 3:40 The Decay of that Colossal Wreck 5:28 Commercializing a Nightmare 8:45 Monsters in the Mist 12:13 The Dark Network 14:43 Drone Sweet Drone 16:33 Ends of the Earth 18:53 Support The Electric State Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #CuriousArchive #TheElectricState #Worldbuilding