With her are Chen, who sees the world in equations and probabilities, constantly on the verge of ego-dissolution into mathematics and emotional trauma a man who might once have been a salamander, or many salamanders, but who definitely once worked intimately for the Company - and Moss, whom Grayson loves. Their leader is Grayson, an astronaut returned to Earth who can see futures and truths out of her blinded eye. Like nearly everything else Vandermeer has created in Dead Astronauts, they are allegories, figments, fables for a dissolving world where narrative and language are as subject to corruption as modified flesh. The three - who are the closest the reader gets to protagonists in the first half of the book - are only nominally human, and only nominally astronauts. 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 survivors - attempt over and over again to dismantle the work of the Company, an entity which may have once been a biotech corporation but now churns out broken and altered-beyond-recognition monstrosities in an endless stream. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dead Astronauts Author Jeff Vandermeer
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