![]() ![]() Here, they are not only exploring one city, but a variety of parallel iterations of it, trying to find an origin point for an event that has seemingly brought the world to its knees. Our three explorers in Dead Astronauts: Grayson, Chen and Morse, similarly lose themselves throughout the course of the novel. Vandermeer’s most famous novel, Annihilation, saw a group of women venture into Area X, a part of the United States that had been transformed and remade so utterly by an alien presence as to be a completely different landscape. It’s the latest in a line of climate-change science fiction, but its easily one of the most fascinating entries in that genre. It verges on impenetrable at times, is often mystifying, but is never less than utterly compelling. A semi-sequel/prequel to his incredible post-apocalyptic, scavengers versus giant flying bear novel Borne, Dead Astronauts delves deep into the mythos of The Company, the strange biomechanical creatures they create, and the mysterious history of Charlie X, an abuser and a victim, who may have ushered in an ecology destroying apocalypse through his work at The Company. Jeff Vandermeer’s Dead Astronauts certainly starts off following a fairly linear path. ![]() Three explorers traverse the multiverse, exploring a city so vast it could only be named ‘the city’, to try and stop a company so all-encompassing that it is named simply, ‘the company’. ![]()
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