Alienation: Final Cut - by Inés Estrada (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Imagine a future in which you live pay check to pay check in a small apartment where you spend most of your time online... except one of your best friends is an AI, the internet is in your brain, and virtual reality is indistinguishable from your dreams! This sci-fi / horror graphic novel, originally released as a series of self-published zines before the pandemic, is finally back to give you the chills with how eerily it's become closer to our reality than ever. The story follows a young couple in Alaska as they're forced to confront questions of intimacy, climate change, and the power of technology. This "Final Cut" edition features 30 new pages, English text with bilingual Spanish translation, as well as deleted dialogues and more material that was only included in the original zines.

Review Quotes

"A witty and original sci-fi debut, Alienation is the graphic novel equivalent of the movie Her on acid."
― Publishers Weekly

"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."
― Southwest Review

"Estrada wields her considerable talents for psychedelia into this science fiction story that questions the true nature of reality and consciousness."
― Comics Beat

"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."
― NPR Books

"It's a thrilling and inspiring reminder of what made me love and want to make my own comics in the first place." - Patrick Kyle, The Comics Journal