Dead Astronauts

A Novel

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Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts (2019, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

352 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2019 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-72070-4
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A surrealist painting

5 stars

Imagine a surrealist painting in an apocalyptic landscape with bioengineered monsters. But that description does not do it justice. I am left with poignant images that have to be pieced together and ruminated on. Or I can stop trying to piece this narrative puzzle together and just accept the beautiful fragments as they are. The message of this novel is that the dread and violence at the end of the world will be searing but also there will be wonder and love.

Subjects

  • Fiction, dystopian