Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer
Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer
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Dead Astronauts

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2019

Synopsis

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.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.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple anthologies. His recent books have made the year’s best books lists of Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Amazon.com.

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator. After beginning her voiceover career with Asian animation, she returned to the United States and began narrating a broad spectrum of audiobook genres. Her multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective to the Asian American narratives she specializes in.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on December 03, 2019

Set in the postapocalyptic universe of Borne, "Dead Astronauts" tells the story of three characters caught up in an epic battle against the Company, a biotech enterprise that has produced bio-engineered creatures and organisms which subsequently changed the face of the earth forever: Not only has th......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on December 02, 2019

I have a very self deprecating sense of humor.  But trust me when I say: it's no joke that I am neither intelligent enough or creative enough or abstract-thinking enough to appreciate this book.  I don't want to trash it completely- because I can appreciate this for the literary experiment that it i......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 13, 2020

Good news, VanderMeer fans! Just look at that cover and imagine, if you will, a book just like a massive acid trip filled with disjointed alternate realities, or reality versions, where men and hybrids, monsters, demons (or daemons), foxes, Shrodinger's ducks, and spawning pools populate your colorf......more

Goodreads review by Paperclippe on January 20, 2020

Once upon a time, I spoke to three dead astronauts. If there is such a thing as environmental horror, this is it. But no, that's not quite right, because this isn't really horror. It's more like... despair. Is despair a genre? But no, that's not it either, because sprinkled in these pages of a ruined,......more

Goodreads review by Kamilla on January 19, 2020

I am a huge Jeff Vandermeer fan and have been for a long time. He is definitely one of my favourite authors and though some of his books left a little to be desired (see the last two Annhiliation books in the series) this was just....... alienatingly frustrating I haven't read a book in a long time t......more

Quotes

"[VanderMeer] delivers vital ferocity in this darkly transcendent novel…It’s precisely that ferocity that makes ‘Dead Astronauts’ so terrifying and so compelling.” New York Times

“This is a Russian doll of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction.” Esquire

“A work of literary science fiction in which the fate of humanity is at stake.” Vogue

"[A] darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror, and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape. Think The Last Judgment but with more animals…So terrifying and so compelling.” New York Times Book Review

“The final pages of Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts tie everything together, making sense of what came before.” Los Angeles Times

“A relentlessly experimental novel, shifting viewpoints and styles, skipping through time frames and across cosmic distances, changing formats…Despite this complex approach, however, it is utterly accessible.” Toronto Star (Canada)

"Dead Astronauts is a kaleidoscopic and fractured mosaic…. The experience of reading it is a compulsively absorbing confusion…Yet the book is profoundly emotional.” NPR

“Sections of the novel are beautiful even when they are chilling; multiplying perspectives on similar events build a complexly layered narrative…While the novel is fantastical in many respects, it’s certainly not whimsical; it’s a collection of narratives that startles.” Los Angeles Review of Books

“Takes [a] sense of invention and playfulness to the extreme, giving us a modern and post-modern tour-de-force unlike any mainstream science fiction novel written over the last two decades.” Locus

“Vandermeer is a master of literary science fiction, and this may be his best book yet.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Awards

  • Audible Pick
  • An i09 Pick
  • Esquire pick
  • Vogue Pick
  • Indie Next List
  • New York Times Editor’s Choice
  • Millions.com Pick
  • BBC Pick
  • Chicago Review of Books Pick
  • Barnes & Noble Pick
  • USA Today Pick
  • Washington Post Best Book
  • Wired Magazine Pick
  • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
  • New York Times Pick
  • Locus Recommendation
  • Kirkus Reviews Pick
  • Locus Award
  • Not the Booker Prize
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