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    Dead Astronauts: A Novel
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    Dead Astronauts: A Novel

    By Jeff VanderMeer

    3.5/5

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    • Survival

    • Identity

    • Memory

    • Time Travel

    • Transformation

    • Post-Apocalyptic World

    • Hero's Journey

    • Power of Love

    • Dystopian Society

    • Shapeshifting

    • Memory Loss

    • Power of Friendship

    • Chosen One

    • Found Family

    • Redemption

    • Space Exploration

    • Nature

    • Environmentalism

    • Time

    • Science Fiction

    About this ebook

    A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

    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.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN9780374720704
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    Dead Astronauts: A Novel
    Author

    Jeff VanderMeer

    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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    • 5/5

      May 27, 2023

      Chilling, sorrowful, and profoundly strange. I’ve never read anything like it.
    • 3/5

      Jan 9, 2024

      Gave it the old college try, I really did. Just wasn't in the mental space for something so abstract and didn't finish. Swapped it out for Annihilation, which I really enjoyed. I still love VanderMeer and may circle back to this again sometime (but not before finishing the Southern Reach trilogy).
    • 5/5

      Jul 21, 2022

      OMFG that was amazing. I devoured it. I loved it. I read into the night until my eyes gave out. This is so much more of an experience than your average book. I was sucked in by the gorgeous yet strikingly unusual prose and compelled through the book by a hunger to consume it whole. It is perfect for those seeking an unusual reading experience.

      (I would NOT recommend it on audio as there are key visual elements to the prose.)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      Dec 1, 2022

      I need to think on this a bit before rating it. I feel like if ever there was a book that would benefit from a study guide, it would be this one.

      There are many words I could use to describe the book, but the topmost are ambitious and experimental. This is post-apocalyptic, multiversal, bleak, loud, trippy, and surgically precise. The text keeps snatching at your brain and it plays both with words as well as concepts. There's rage, fear, despair, vastness, and awe. And also, confusion. And second guessing. And a whole lot of what the fuck. Not that much plot, though, so be warned.

      I've never taken acid, but I would be surprised if the same can be said of the author.
    • 4/5

      Apr 21, 2020

      Complex, confusing, rewarding, challenging, painful and experimental.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      Nov 7, 2020

      This one that is half poetry, half literature. It has a strong environmental feel. I'm still not entirely sure what this book is about, the dreamy style, the contradicting back stories of how they came to be... its a tale told from a dream. Enjoy it, its well written, but incredibly frustrating.
    • 2/5

      Sep 15, 2020

       Just edging over the line into incomprehensible for me, a linear thinker. I like the rest of the author's work enough to believe the issue is probably with me and not the writing.