Dead Astronauts

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.

Publisher: MCD
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780374276805


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2019 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 36
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 31
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2019

About the Author
Jeff VanderMeer is the weird Thoreau according to The New Yorker. He is the author of Borne and The Southern Reach Trilogy, the first volume of which, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change. VanderMeer lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, and their cats, plants, and bird feeders.