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Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer









The same reviewers though found that the loose connections added to the message and themes of the novel. Many reviewers found the story to be elusive and unclear and the novel to be overstuffed with too loosely linked concepts and character. Reception ĭead Astronauts was met with mixed reviews. The second half of the novel follows a homeless woman, Sarah, as she seeks to understand the journal of Charlie X, a scientist of "The Company". The three then set out across multiple timelines and versions of the world to try and stop the company. Chen sees the world in equations and formulas, but is always on the verge of collapsing into a mass of salamanders. On the way they run into Chen, a creation of The Company who became disillusioned and horrified at the work he was doing and fled. Together Moss and Grayson decide to return to The City and attempt to save it from "The Company". Moss is a sentient moss that takes the form of a person around her companions, but can shapeshift with ease and split into multiple selves. She flees the city and travels west where she encounters and falls in love with Moss. After exploring space and finding no habitable planets and no signs of life, she returns to "The City" and finds it transformed by the company.

Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

Grayson, the leader, is a former astronaut that can see iterations of the future and information about others through a blinded eye. The first half of the novel follow three part human shapeshifters - Grayson, Moss, and Chen - as they travel through worlds to fight "The Company".











Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer