6/30/2023 0 Comments Vandermeer dead astronauts![]() ![]() In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction. This is a Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. ![]() Dead Astronauts is a prequel of sorts, following those three astronauts as they square off against a nefarious biotech corporation known only as the Company, which devastated Earth’s biome by releasing bioengineered creatures into the wild. Through novels like Borne and the Southern Reach Trilogy (whose first volume, Annihilation, was adapted into a 2018 Natalie Portman movie), VanderMeer has become a pioneer of the New Weird, a genre that subverts cliches of speculative fiction to create something dark, terrorizing, and wonderful.ĭead Astronauts, his latest novel, returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Borne, where three dusty spacesuits fallen from the heavens and embedded in the terrain made for a memorable, mysterious image. ![]() His novels and stories exist at the vanguard of art and activism, with each one not only pushing the formal boundaries of literary science fiction, but advancing the conversation about climate crisis. As the prophet of climate fiction, Jeff VanderMeer occupies a singular space in literature. ![]()
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