Thus their intimacy had become exponential, along with their sadness and regret. Their mission is to save the world, over and over again, because they can’t stop failing, their failures compounding across time: “Each had had the experience of self-annihilation. Schrodinger’s Cat writ into ethereal multiplicity, as it were. Because the astronauts are both alive and dead all the time, in several different universes, which often overlap and fold onto each other, allowing the three to fight, fall in love and co-exist with each other on different timelines.

Moss could change like other people breathed…”Īll three astronauts flow along different continuums in this world, both before and after their death. “Moss remained stubbornly uncommitted – to origin, to gender, to genes, went by ‘she’ this time but not others. Here we follow the three – a woman named Grayson, a man named Chen and a woman, sometimes, named Moss. Three dead astronauts had fallen to earth and been planted like tulips…” N.K.The astronauts in question pop up early on in 'Borne,' primarily as creepy window-dressing: “I came to the edge of a courtyard and a peculiar sight. But where Poe kept his most vicious blows relatively oblique, VanderMeer drives them deep-albeit in a corkscrewing way that is not less cruel and exquisite.” “More than just a horror novel there’s something Poe-like in this tightening, increasingly paranoid focus. KAREN JOY FOWLER, BookPage, on Annihilation “Unsettling and un-put-down-able-like an old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written and not at all old-fashioned.” NISI SHAWL, The Seattle Times, on Annihilation STEPHEN KING, on The Southern Reach Trilogy

COLSON WHITEHEAD, author of Nickel Boys “Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it’s a thorough marvel.” 'For any adventurous fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and/or horror, this book offers not only a rewarding read but, like, a thing to possess.' 'VanderMeer is a master of literary science fiction, and this may be his best book yet.' In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction.'

'A Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. CHELSEA LEU, The New York Times Book Review The fox's image recedes, and three scavengers appear, by the names of Grayson, Moss, and Chen. In Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts, a blue fox rules the land, singing prophesies to all of the creatures he controls. ' darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: VanderMeer, Jeff.

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