A Coming-of-Age Tale Spanning Decades, and Taking Readers to Weird New Worlds
August 20, 2024
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Free League Publishing :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stockholm, Sweden (August 20, 2024) — Today, Free League Publishing is thrilled to announce the Kickstarter campaign for Simon Stålenhag’s next narrative artbook. Swedish Machines takes readers on a deeply personal journey based on Stalenhag’s native home of Sweden. The Kickstarter campaign launches on August 27, 2024, at 9 AM EDT / 3 PM CEST.
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Stålenhag’s most ambitious work to date, Swedish Machines will be bound and printed to the highest standard. It is a tale of friendship, love, and maturing in an alternate world. Swedish Machines spans the ‘90s, ‘00s, and beyond, and transports readers to the Svartlöten Exclusion Zone to uncover the weird secrets within it.
About Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag (b. 1984) is the internationally acclaimed author and artist behind Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth. His highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian and American landscapes have made Stålenhag one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world.
Tales From the Loop was ranked one of the 10 Best Dystopias by The Guardian, along with such works as Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca. The narrative art book was turned into a multiple award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and a board game by Free League. In 2019, his book The Electric State was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clare Award and the Locus Award. A film adaptation of The Electric State, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, will soon be released on Netflix. His first book, Tales From the Loop, was adapted into a TV show on Amazon Prime in 2020.
A press kit for Swedish Machines can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/Swedish-Machines-Press-Kit.
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About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include The Electric State Roleplaying Game, based on the acclaimed narrative artbook by Simon Stålenhag, and Coriolis: The Great Dark.
Our current game portfolio includes the Zone Wars - A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame, the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, the fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the MÖRK BORG spin-off RPG PIRATE BORG, the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop - The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate '80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).
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