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Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris PrattA teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Black Mirror.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.

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Simon Stålenhag is the internationally lauded artist and author of Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State--the narrative art books that stunned the world with a vision of an alternate 1980s and 1990s where technology had invaded the tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Sura Siu is a first-generation Asian American voiceover actress who has a passion for breathing life into characters, stories, and the printed word. When not performing, she enjoys playing video games, biking, and meditating. Shaun Michael Taylor-Corbett is an American actor, singer and writer. Taylor-Corbett is known for his roles in Jersey Boys, In the Heights by Lin Manuel Miranda, and Between Two Knees by The 1491s. He also stars as Darrell Walters in the musical he co-created, Distant Thunder, and is a prolific audiobook narrator with credits including There There by Tommy Orange, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, an d Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.

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