Things From the Flood

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Hardcover, 132 pages

Published July 7, 2020 by Skybound Books.

ISBN:
978-1-9821-5071-6
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It started on Christmas Day in 1994. Dark water suddenly rose from the land, invading our homes and lives. They say it came from the depths inside the Loop. Whatever it was the Flood changed everything. Nothing would ever be the same again. Simon Stalenhag takes us to an extraordinary world, a world of fear and discovery, in a story told through his gut-punchingly spare narrative and lush illustrations. Stories told in both words and haunting illustrations, THINGS FROM THE FLOOD captures 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... and the hope we might still find in that future.

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reviewed Things From the Flood by Simon Stålenhag

Evocating illustrations of life and things from the Flood.

A follow-up to the author's "Tales from the Loop", it follows the life of a boy whose family is forced to evacuate their home when the underground abandoned Loop starts to flood their area. The book mixes evocative illustrations of robots and abandoned technology in the countryside with tales about wandering robots and conspiracy stories about alien invasions and about possible unknown life in the flood.