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** Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown and Chris Pratt **

Stranger Things meets On the Road in this hypnotic, lavishly illustrated novel.
 
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.

Told in achingly melancholy, spare prose and featuring almost a hundred gorgeous, full-colour illustrations, The Electric State is a novel like no other.
 
Rights in The Electric State have already sold in thirteen territories and Deadline rep

The Electric State

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      Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
      Published 6 September 2018
      ISBN-13 9781471176081
      978-1471176081
      ISBN-10 1471176088
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      Fiction Graphic Novels & Manga Science Fiction Sci-Fi

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      ** Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown and Chris Pratt **

      Stranger Things       meets On the Road in this hypnotic, lavishly illustrated novel.
       
      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.

      Told in achingly melancholy, spare prose and featuring almost a hundred gorgeous, full-colour illustrations, The Electric State is a novel like no other.
       
      Rights in The Electric State have already sold in thirteen territories and Deadline rep

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