Dead Astronauts

Life in the city with no name is controlled by the Company. A blue fox who can move through time and space, a demon-haunted homeless woman and a centuries-old leviathan fish attempt to set this state of affairs to rights.

About the author

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

Summary

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters — Grayson, Morse and Chen — shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff VanderMeer, VanderMeer Jeff
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780008375324
• ISBN: 978-0-00-837532-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Steampunk, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Dystopian & utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, The;Of;Brontë;Love;Family;Marriage;Romance;Modern