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paragraph_text: The Electric State (Swedish: Passagen, lit. ' The Passage ') is a 2018 dystopian science fiction illustrated novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Set in an alternate technologically ravaged 1990s, it follows a teenage girl and her robot on a journey to the West Coast of the United States in search of her long-lost brother.
  
  In 2017, the Russo brothers acquired film rights to the book. They directed and produced a Netflix film of the same title.
  
  The Electric State (Swedish: Passagen, lit. ' The Passage ') is a 2018 dystopian science fiction illustrated novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Set in an alternate technologically ravaged 1990s, it follows a teenage girl and her robot on a journey to the West Coast of the United States in search of her long-lost brother.
  
  In 2017, the Russo brothers acquired film rights to the book. They directed and produced a Netflix film of the same title.