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“RPG Tales from the Loop lets you channel Stranger Things and ET.” The Verge “Tales From The Loop could very well be the RPG phenomenon of 2017.” Geek & Sundry 'Tales From The Loop, a role-playing game, is what happens when Netflix’s Stranger Things and the Welcome to Night Vale podcast go bump in the night' io9.gizmodo.com.
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In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop. These are its strange tales.
Simon Stålenhag’s paintings of Swedish 1980s suburbia, populated by fantastic machines...more
Simon Stålenhag’s paintings of Swedish 1980s suburbia, populated by fantastic machines...more
Published 2015 by Free League Publishing (first published September 25th 2014)
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Dec 01, 2016Maggie Stiefvater rated it it was amazing
I'd like to think this book LOOKS like my novels FEEL.
What do I mean by that? I'm not precisely sure. TALES FROM THE LOOP is an art book, a handsome matte collection of a dreamy alternate 80s. There's a bit of text, but the text is mostly besides the point. Really, TALES FROM THE LOOP is about the images: hyper-realistic paintings of Swedish life with decaying robots, inquisitive dinosaurs, rundown hovercraft, and well-worn androids. It feels like our world, but just a little strange. Sometimes...more
Aug 30, 2018Fiona rated it it was amazingWhat do I mean by that? I'm not precisely sure. TALES FROM THE LOOP is an art book, a handsome matte collection of a dreamy alternate 80s. There's a bit of text, but the text is mostly besides the point. Really, TALES FROM THE LOOP is about the images: hyper-realistic paintings of Swedish life with decaying robots, inquisitive dinosaurs, rundown hovercraft, and well-worn androids. It feels like our world, but just a little strange. Sometimes...more
Shelves: absolute-favourites, scifi, dystopia, alternative-earth
We walked in long lines through winter nights, and you could see little points of light go on and off in the darkness - cigarettes smoked by teenagers who had gathered around their wrecked memories, like a requiem.
We made our nights our days, squinted at the horizon, and sighed. Way over there, the morning dawned.
Tales from the Loop is absolutely extraordinary - the art is gorgeous, the writing is sparse but used to great effect, and the world Simon Stålenhag has built is inventive and sparks th...more
We made our nights our days, squinted at the horizon, and sighed. Way over there, the morning dawned.
Tales from the Loop is absolutely extraordinary - the art is gorgeous, the writing is sparse but used to great effect, and the world Simon Stålenhag has built is inventive and sparks th...more
Okay I will admit there was a small part of me that bought this book just to annoy my brother. Petty I know but anyone who has an older brother or sister will agree with there are times it just has to be done.
You see he has been raving about the art of Simon Stalenhag for years now - sending me screen shots and hyperlinks going on about his unique vision and style. However his printed work is rather limited and when you do find it, its rather expensive.
So yes I found a copy of this book and I...more
You see he has been raving about the art of Simon Stalenhag for years now - sending me screen shots and hyperlinks going on about his unique vision and style. However his printed work is rather limited and when you do find it, its rather expensive.
So yes I found a copy of this book and I...more
Feb 06, 2016Gregory Bolkenstijn rated it it was amazing
Simon Stålenhag never grew up. He kept his imagination and creativity from his childhood and created these beautiful and mysterious paintings about retro-futuristic Swedish landscapes. How about that for a niche? His paintings are collected in this book and have a short narrative which explains just as much as it fills you with new mystery. The book really takes you into Simon’s fantasy world and leaves you wishing you never grew up as well. This book is well worth the price and deserves a nice...more
Dec 12, 2017Eldan Goldenberg rated it it was amazing
I got this on the strength of Stålenhag's paintings, which I'd seen online and made up a completely different backstory for (standard dystopian scifi). What he actually does is much more interesting: it's very much a young boy's fantasy but told well enough to be an engaging read as an adult. And of course the paintings are gorgeous: a very familiar 80s European suburbia made strange and unsettling.
Mar 26, 2017Will rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Simon Stalenhåg is an artist whose work occasionally surfaces around the internet, often bereft of its creator’s name or any context. As is typical of his work, the tableau is unassuming, suburban, retro, and yet his scenes are adorned with monolithic alien architectures that could only be born of the question many a tired teacher told us not to ask back in grade school: “What if….?”
Tales from the Loop is Stalenhåg’s first collection of work, set in an alternate history that diverges from our ow...more
Tales from the Loop is Stalenhåg’s first collection of work, set in an alternate history that diverges from our ow...more
Mar 12, 2017Alex Harris-MacDuff rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Would give this a thousand stars if I could. Breathtaking. This is one the books that you can easily read in one sitting. There is not story as such, it is a series of paintings with explanatory notes about the author's childhood in Sweden around The Loop, with all of the bizarre sci-of machinery and peculiar dimensional disturbances associated with it. However, I fully expect to revisit this book countless times to pore over the images again and again. The depth and realism of such an alternati...more
Oct 24, 2018Roland Jakobsson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The images in this book is nothing short of amazing. As a child of the 80s in Sweden I was completely spellbound with so many of the little details in this book. The images are breathtaking, accompanied by small texts and stories about growing up and the wonders and magic of childhood. Huge nostalgia trip for me, even though it takes place in an alternate reality it still evokes so much nostalgia for me.
Apr 02, 2019Dávid Novotný rated it really liked it
This book is about feelings and nostalgia, shards of stories add to stirring art. You need read between the lines and fill in missing pieces and your own conclusions, and suddenly you are back in childhood when old wrecks and ruins could be long lost worlds or anything... If you like sci-fi and you are willing to just gaze and let your fantasy burst, you won't be disappointed.
Apr 19, 2017Tony McMillen rated it really liked it
I loved both books in this series. I read them out of order but I don't necessarily think that affects the experience. Both books tell great stories about growing up and the mysteries inherent in that but book 2 (Things From the Flood) I found to hit me harder. Both emotionally and visually. But I'd recommend both books wholeheartedly.
Feb 21, 2018Tom Malinowski rated it it was amazing
In an alternate world, a huge particle accelerator has been created called the Loop. The author weaves in a crafty narrative along with compelling, out of this world artwork to tell a tale of weird technology and how the citizens interact with it. Huge ships running on magnetic waves, discarded robots, and even a dinosaur or too. Absolutely phenomenal!
Dec 29, 2018Kirsten rated it it was amazing
Stalenhag pairs eerie paintings with recollections of an alternate Sweden where the remains of science fiction industry jut from fields, robots and dinosaurs wander, and kids go home to play Sega. The combination evokes a strange feeling of nostalgia and displacement.
Amazingly creative and at times downright creepy. Loved it.
Nov 01, 2015Mark Seemann rated it really liked it
A collection of beautiful digital paintings of rural Sweden in the eighties, crossed with science fiction buildings, robots, vehicles, and the occasional dinosaur. A past that never was.
The paintings themselves are stunning, and evoke a peculiar feeling of a nostalgia and awe.
Some of the paintings are accompanied with short text vignettes. When I first heard of that concept, I was a bit apprehensive, as I was worried that the text would remove the mystic feeling of the pictures. Fortunately, the...more
The paintings themselves are stunning, and evoke a peculiar feeling of a nostalgia and awe.
Some of the paintings are accompanied with short text vignettes. When I first heard of that concept, I was a bit apprehensive, as I was worried that the text would remove the mystic feeling of the pictures. Fortunately, the...more
Jun 06, 2017Malcolm Schmitz rated it it was amazing
This makes me feel nostalgic for a childhood I never had- but at the same time it's the childhood all of us had, in a way.
Jan 05, 2019Sheherazahde rated it really liked it![Loop Loop](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4035/products/TFL_map.jpg?v=1493027889)
Shelves: science-fiction, alternative-history, fiction
I had hoped for more plot. Despite the sci-fi aspects it is basically a memoir. A very sparse memoir. A collection of paintings with brief stories about what they mean to the author about his uneventful childhood in a remote industrial town. It's all very mundane.
Some people have mentioned dinosaurs. There are some very nice paintings of dinosaurs. The text does not claim that anyone actually saw any dinosaurs. Just children making up stories. All the really fantastic things that are described...more
Some people have mentioned dinosaurs. There are some very nice paintings of dinosaurs. The text does not claim that anyone actually saw any dinosaurs. Just children making up stories. All the really fantastic things that are described...more
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Dec 31, 2018Travis rated it liked it · review of another edition Shelves: art-book, dinosaurs, speculative-fiction, historical, sci-fi
Stålenhag's art is a lot of fun with how it blends the mundane and the fantastical in this simple and very believable way. This book collects those works that were my first taste of his style. Yet I found it less compelling than The Electric State; possibly this indicates that Stålenhag has improved as a creator, as that was his third book. But for this book, there are two main points that tamper my enjoyment. The first is that it is very much built on feelings of nostalgia, but the real world...more
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Steef rated it it was amazing Shelves: art-book, english, fantasy, favorites, sci-fi
Okay, I may have handled this better, as I read these books in order 3-2-1 (which isn't a problem really), but I did save the best for last!
I think Tales from the Loop is Stålenhag's best work. This contains the most diverse ideas, stories and images. Diverse, but all belonging to that single group of islands in that particular period of time. It's strange (and very impressive) that Stålenhag can evoke feelings of nostalgia and recognition to a place that has never been.
I like the interlude page...more
I think Tales from the Loop is Stålenhag's best work. This contains the most diverse ideas, stories and images. Diverse, but all belonging to that single group of islands in that particular period of time. It's strange (and very impressive) that Stålenhag can evoke feelings of nostalgia and recognition to a place that has never been.
I like the interlude page...more
I had been meaning to buy Simon Stalenhag's 'Tales from the Loop' ever since I first saw it and the announcement that Amazon had purchased the rights to base a TV show on it, reminded me to pick it up at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. I read it piecemeal, a few pages at a time before bed each night, savoring the surreal, photo realistic paintings and equally surreal explanatory vignettes of a world that (probably thankfully) never existed. The juxtapositioning of beautifully and realistically...more
Beautiful science fiction artwork of a reimagined 1980s Sweden that never was, as seen through the eyes of middle school tweens and teens. The artwork is interspersed with short narrative tales told by children living in the vicinity of 'The Loop', a massive particle accelerator originally built in a fictional 1960s that revolutionized life in the fictional present of the 1980s presented here. It is a world at once nostalgically familiar yet strange and alienating. Stålenhag's artwork has inspir...more
Apr 02, 2019Cale rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This is a fascinating book. Stalenhag's artwork is distinct and beautiful, mixing the banal with the fantastical in a spare style that evokes wonder in the mundane as much as the mechanical marvels. The stories that surround the images are so simple and serene that it's easy to lose yourself into believing this strange world is a real place. If anything, he's a little too shy on the stories; I would love to hear more about the people and the places that 'created' the vistas he has captured. This...more
Basically an art book, Stalenhag imagines growing up near an industrial / research area in Sweden where an enormous particular accelerator, called the Loop, was installed. The author imagines a variety of discarded and current machinery, including robots, that would be encountered by a young man as he grows up. Each painting is accompanied by text putting the image into the context of living in the region. Stalenhag even invokes the idea of a time warp to bring dinosaurs, which he loves to portr...more
Feb 08, 2018Oscar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Being myself an Art Director, I can say it's hard to find concept artists with a voice of their own. Of course there's a lot of talented people with amazing skills for drawing, for carrying the tiniest ideas to huge baroque worlds full of detail and intrinsic logic, but Simon Stålenhag takes those skills to new heights of artistic work.
His illustrated short stories display a great power of synthesis, a masterful, pictoric use of color, composition and space. But most of all, they show a precise,...more
His illustrated short stories display a great power of synthesis, a masterful, pictoric use of color, composition and space. But most of all, they show a precise,...more
May 05, 2017John rated it liked it
A nice artbook with good flavor text describing the authors childhood growing up in the 80s near the Loop. Of course, it's all fictionalized set in an alternate reality with robots, dinosaurs, and fantastic machinery existing alongside mundane 80s sedans and station wagons.
I got this after reading the RPG based on it, and there's really nothing major new here that's not in the RPG book. The background is the same as presented in the book, but personalized to be from the authors point of view. A...more
I got this after reading the RPG based on it, and there's really nothing major new here that's not in the RPG book. The background is the same as presented in the book, but personalized to be from the authors point of view. A...more
Fantastical shorts centered around an ambiguous main character as they deserve robe their childhood growing up in an alternate 80's reality. Stalenhag captures the essence of childhood imagination alongside truly unique sci-fi writing.
A bright and imaginative world transport you to a completely feasible reality where a massive hyperloop particle excellerator is constructed below-ground and robotics and flighted vehicles are part of everyday.
If you enjoy sci-fi, excellent world building and stun...more
A bright and imaginative world transport you to a completely feasible reality where a massive hyperloop particle excellerator is constructed below-ground and robotics and flighted vehicles are part of everyday.
If you enjoy sci-fi, excellent world building and stun...more
Jun 18, 2018Samuel Valentino rated it it was amazing
An incredible book, with a creative premise and fantastic illustrations. His rendering ability is amazing. If there was one critique (and only one) to the art, it would be that some of the colors were a little monochrome (like beaches were just various shades of the same color). But it took me over half the book to even realize it because of how beautiful the paintings were (and I only mention it because that seemed to no longer be the case in the sequel, Things from the Flood, which is even mor...more
Fun, slightly retro sci-fi illustrations, each with its own story (most of which read like a memoir). These are pictures of people and places out of time - and robots and dinosaurs coexisting, all with a 1970's feel. Some of the images are beautiful, some are haunting, some are whimsical -- and I, for one, would like to find out if 'magnatrine' transport would really work! Worth a look or two.
--Steven E. Scribner, author of the 'Tond' series (fantasy) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
--Steven E. Scribner, author of the 'Tond' series (fantasy) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Oct 19, 2018Ali rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Wow. I hardly know what to say. The images in this book are beautiful, dark and haunting. The bits of story scattered throughout are brief and just enough to help the reader get a sense of the fantastic place of The Loop. Set in a sci-fi version of 1980s Sweden this book tells the story of the author’s childhood and the strange and surprising machines and creatures he and others he knew encountered. This book made me feel the same way I felt reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I highly recommen...more
Jun 12, 2017Rhianna rated it it was amazing
An in- depth review can be found here! This is so epic. I remember seeing Stålenhag's work on Reddit before and even had one of the illustrations in this book as my desktop wallpaper for a while. His work is so atmospheric and even without the text each page tells its own unique story. The 80's backdrop and gorgeous mix of machine and environment blend together seamlessly. This is definitely on my To Buy list.
I discovered the art of Simon Stålenhag by happy accident, like a lot of things one stumbles across on the internet. And now I am a fan. This over-sized collection of his trippy 1990s-Swedish-countryside-meets-the-robotic-future is both chilling and idyllic, and here it is supported by wonderfully vague descriptions and recollections. The underlying theme of the world's largest particle accelerator and the massive changes it brings are the stuff of real beauty.
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Konstnären och författaren Simon Stålenhag är mest känd för sina digitala målningar som ofta visar vardagliga scener med fantastiska inslag. Efter sitt genombrott 2013 har Stålenhag publicerat två böcker om ett alternativt 1980- och 90-tal på Mälaröarna utanför Stockholm. Ur varselklotet (2014) och Flodskörden (2016) har hyllats både i Sverige och utomlands. Den ansedda tidningen The Guardian kora...more