Things from the Flood

Simon Stålenhag

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781471194436
• eBook ISBN: 9781471194443

'Gorgeously creepy and strangely human' -National Public Radio 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. Perfect for fans of everything from STRANGER THINGS to JURASSIC PARK to JUMANJI, Things from the Flood is an incredible, unmissable work of genius. PRAISE for SIMON STALENHAG
'Tales has the magic. It's got the robots, the weirdness, the dinosaurs. But most of all, it has the wonder. No one who picks this book up will be the same person when they put it down again' NPR on Tales from the Loop
' No words to describe this novel in pictures. Stahlenhag defined a whole new aesthetic for scifi in the 21st century' Damien Walter on The Electric State 'Achilling, unforgettable visual and narrative experience' Locus on The Electric State Stalenhag's 'stories crawl into my brain and mess with my memory of history, time and place' NPR on The Electric State

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Preface
• 1. Dark Stains
• 2. Bodies Of Water
• 3. Berggården
• 4. The Computer Tard and the Hippopotamus
• 5. Hägerstalund’s Diving Tower
• 6. The Russian Teddy Bears
• 7. The Clovers
• 8. The Astronomer’s House
• 9. Modem Time
• 10. Office Landscapes
• 11. Unlock. Explore. Repeat.
• 12. Covert Ops
• 13. Sebastian Seuffert’s Dragons
• 14. Jury-Rigging
• 15. The Vagabonds
• 16. River Flesh
• 17. The Culture
• 18. Machine Cancer
• 19. Sockarby Quarry
• 20. A Beautiful, Beautiful Butterfly
• 21. Defense Mechanisms
• 22. Surviving a Pandemic from 51 Pegasi B
• 23. Illegal Copies
• 24. The Time of Blossoming
• 25. A Farewell of Sorts
• 26. A General Sense of Style
• 27. Welcome to your New Installation of Life ’98
• Copyright