Synopsis
Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book is about Elizabeth, an exotic dancer in cyberspace, and Carlos, who was just fired from the last human-staffed oil rig, attempting to keep their romance alive. When they realize that their bodies are full of artificial organs and they live almost entirely online, they begin to question what being human actually means. Do our ancestral, or even animal, instincts eventually kick in, or are we transcending the limits of our bodies? Inés Estrada’s new graphic novel introduces us to a powerfully exquisite and chilling near future that doesn’t seem too far-fetched, where virtual reality affects our diets, sex lives, and nightly dreams.
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Review
What makes Estrada's work so good has to do with the passion and enjoyment that is imbued in it. And her coloring is out of this world -- humming with life.
It's a combination of dizzy glee at the incredible things technology can do and a grim, omnipresent awareness of pending disaster--a mix that Estrada gets spot-on.
Estrada wields her considerable talents for psychedelia into this science fiction story that questions the true nature of reality and consciousness.
Alienation does what all the best dystopian stories do: it paints a bleak picture of the future to speculate about how fucked we are as a society.
About the Author
Inés Estrada hails from Mexico City and lives in Texas.
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ISBN 10: 1683961897
ISBN 13: 9781683961895
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