![]() ![]() New readers will want to read Borne before diving into its multi-dimensional sequel. Highly recommended for those interested in sf invested in ecological concerns and speculative fiction that plays with narrative form. The varied points of view and stylistic shifts of the narrative allow the reader to experience reality through the eyes of different characters, human and otherwise, and the struggle of different forms of life trying to survive unites the vignettes that form the bulk of the novel. As these three lovers and companions come to the latest version of the City and the sinister Company, the established patterns of their war across realities begin to shift, with factors such as the demented and tortured Charlie X, a mysterious blue fox, a vast leviathan, and the dark bird known as “the duck with a broken wing” all come into play. The fragmented narrative centers primarily on the dead astronauts at the crossroads from Borne, revealed to be three revolutionaries consisting of former Company workers/experiments Chen and Moss and the formerly lost-in-space Grayson. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earthall the Earths. Vandermeer’s follow-up to Borne(2017) explores the multiple pasts and futures of the City and the sinister Company that twists and destroys countless living things. A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALISTJeff VanderMeers 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. ![]()
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