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Dead Astronauts

by Jeff VanderMeer

A city in the shadow of the Company

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2020 Locus Award finalist

    Named as a 2020 Locus Award finalist.

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A city in the shadow of the Company

In a nameless City ruled by the all-powerful Company, human and nonhuman lives intersect as the fate of Earth—and other Earths—hangs in the balance. The book brings together a blue fox moving through time and space, a homeless woman and a strange journal, an ancient fish guarding a secret, rebels fighting the corporation, and a desert wanderer haunted by an invisible creation. These distinct threads connect through a world shaped by corporate power, uncertain memory, and hidden purposes, giving the novel an apocalyptic science-fiction frame that reaches beyond a single version of Earth.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving corporate power, nonhuman figures, and intersecting mysteries.

Themes

Corporate powerMemory and identityTime and spaceEarth and its possible futures

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Book overview

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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