Simon Stålenhag
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
This goo was worth a point in September 2025.
publication date: Friday, September 12, 2025 (part of September 2025)
category: 
Art
clue: Simon & Schuster (& Skybound) saw soaring sales since sympathetic stans sponsored some Stockholmer's sci-fi story "Sparking State." Seriously.
explanation: Stålenhag's work depicts retro-futurism. His third book, The Electric State, was crowdfunded by fans and ultimately published by Simon & Schuster in the U.K. and Skybound Books in the U.S. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
trivia: The assonance of the clue is meant to be a hint to the assonance in Stålenhag's name.
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