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Dead Astronauts

By Jeff VanderMeer
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer digital book - Fable

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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.

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“Follows up the previous book but is less a sequel but more a poetic miasma that envelopes the first story and gives more depth to side characters and context to weird phenomena. And for me... it just wasn't doing much. The melancholic, wearily striving voice was doing more work to build characters top-down than I felt emerging naturally from details bottom up, the pithy poetics weren't landing as intended (e.g. "all flesh is quantum", "A room is no longer there. Does it still exist?"), and the overdrawn poetics (e.g. repeating a cycle of text with only minor parenthetical additions) were a drain. I keep revisiting parts hoping to get to another layer of meaning that the poetry suggests, but the internal reality of this story is so undermined (which is basically explicit narrative intent) that I feel more disengaged from the first book than I do immersed through this one.”
“Yeah, I wanted this. From the moment they were hanging on the wall, I wanted this. Be careful what you wish for cuz you might be given more than you bargained. You might be taken where you don’t want to go. Inside their polluted, convoluted minds. And trap you there. Resolutionless. Here’s a dose of their pain, their fears, their dreams, their nightmares, their deepest desires. What, that isn’t what you meant? Fuck you. This isn’t your world. Chaos doesn’t conform to your ideals. Next time, be more careful”
Thinking Face“This was definitely something. At least I tried sci-fi, probably will try it again who knows. The writing style changes every section or even chapter. It really challenges your ability to read at a quicker pace because there’s extra words or not enough words in the sentence to make sense. Also apparently this is the second book, not a stand alone like I thought it was. Should’ve done research 🧐 I would just like to say I love Moss as a character. So cute, so sweet. And the imagery and descriptions definitely sparked a need to sketch or paint these characters. Blue Fox especially. I will probably wait a few years and go back and read it again to see if my view or understanding changes.”

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