A review by ceridwenanne
Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

If anything, better than its predecessor Tales from the Loop. Darker certainly. Tales from the Loop is a really great example of cassette futurism, a flavor of retrofuturism which relies on a techno-aesthetic from the 70s and 80s. Things from the Flood picks up the oral history of the area around the Loop, an underground facility of unknown mandate, in the 90s after the Loop's closure. It's considerably more disturbing, the feral robots shifting subtly from a nuisance to a concern; not quite a threat, but not quite not.  The bit about Machine Cancer is going to bother my dreams for a bit, I'm sure. Anyway, super good.