Things From The Flood

"Last year, Simon Stalenhag’s beautiful art book, Tales from the Loop, gave us a peek into the alternate history of a small town in Sweden full of snow, distantly glowing lights and giant robots. This year, we have Things from the Flood — a darker sequel to that mind-blowing first visit to the Swedish suburbs where time, space and memory were altered by “The Loop.” If anything, this second installment is even more affecting, offering a more complete narrative backbone, and a vision of the machine-haunted world that came after the collapse of The Loop. No one who spends any time traveling in Stalenhag’s universe comes out the same on the other side. The words will mess with your head, but the illustrations (of the rusted shells of robots, floppy disks, suburban tract housing and portable stereos bubbling with horrible life) will climb right inside you and screw with your dreams."