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In Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer, readers are taken into a surreal and beautifully constructed world that blurs the boundaries of reality and imagination. The narrative follows three explorers battling an all-powerful biotech company, navigating landscapes that are both breathtaking and treacherous. Exploring themes of identity, survival, and the intertwined fates of species, the book creates a visually immersive and thought-provoking literary experience.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to surreal narratives and the blending of science fiction with environmental themes. It offers a unique journey through fragmented storylines and striking imagery, appealing to readers who appreciate experimental and thought-provoking literature.

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Dead Astronauts

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. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.

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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. A blue fox, a giant fish, and language stretched to the limit.

A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. 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.

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. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth – all the Earths.

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Dead Astronauts is described as a complicated yet rewarding novel that demands reader concentration. It's recognised for its mix of beauty and horror, alongside strong ecological themes, offering a unique narrative about environmental apocalypse. The novel is also highlighted as an allegory for individual resistance against immense global issues like climate change.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008375362

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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