![]() ![]() At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth – all the Earths. ![]() Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. It’s precisely that ferocity that makes Dead Astronauts so terrifying and so compelling. But VanderMeer’s brilliant formal tricks make love feel abstract and unconvincing by the end, a flimsy human ideal. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Amid all its grimness, the novel finds some small redemption in the power of love. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.Ī messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters ― Grayson, Morse and Chen ― shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. ![]()
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