One of her companions is Chen, a stocky man from a country that doesn’t exist anymore he thinks in equations and poetry and has a tendency to dissolve into salamanders. Her left eye was white and yet still she could see through it why shouldn’t she?” She had no hair on her head because she liked velocity. Most human is “a tall black woman of indeterminate age named Grayson. The first half of Dead Astronauts focuses on a trio of. If that makes you uncomfortable, you ain’t seen nothing yet. His Southern Reach trilogy, for example, could be described as post-apocalyptic speculative eco-fiction with horror elements, more or less.ĭead Astronauts is a prequel of sorts to his 2017 novel, Borne, or maybe a sequel, or maybe it takes place in a parallel universe very like, and sometimes intersecting with, the one in Borne. In Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel, Dead Astronauts, it’s complicated.ĭubbed the “King of Weird Fiction” by the New Yorker, VanderMeer has always dodged literary categories, or mashed them up so exuberantly they seem irrelevant. What is the blue fox – a prophet, an alien, a demigod of nature, a hallucination, a genetic experiment gone wrong? If a wandering astronaut sees her own skeleton, turned relic in a city that changes form each time she enters it, does it signal her death or her immortality?
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