![]() ![]() It’s certainly among VanderMeer’s most experimental work, but the novel never coalesces the characters and concepts are too loosely sketched and the prose is both grandiose and oddly humorless, punctuated by lines such as “A fox is a question that must be answered” and “The duck represented a paradox.” This diffuse novel reads like unused notes from Borne and feels incomplete. ![]() ![]() If this sounds overstuffed, it’s because it is. After the first few chapters, fragmentary subplots bubble up: there is Charlie X, a rogue astronaut from the expedition fighting to hold on to his memories amid a creeping amnesia a massive sea monster awaits its death a mysterious journal containing knowledge of demons that foretells the coming of the monster Behemoth is passed between survivors a total darkness called Nocturnalia threatens to engulf the dead city and a shapeshifter confronts a cosmic duck over ownership of the journal. Jeff Vandermeer's latest novel, Dead Astronauts, is a kaleidoscopic and fractured mosaic: In a long-changed, post-climate-apocalypse world, a trio of saboteurs or escapees or simply. Into this unpredictable landscape come three astronauts, Chen, Moss, and Grayson, determined to explore their otherworldly environment, which is watched over by a mysterious blue fox that seems capable of transcending time and space. VanderMeer returns to the hallucinatory world of Borne, where an all-powerful company has ravaged a metropolis known only as the City, in this lackluster novel. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. ![]()
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