I suspect this novel won't be for everyone because it is often narrated by non-humans. Non-humans who are often practically alien. For me, it was a gift to read such imaginative perspectives. I read the Kindle version.
Dead Astronauts takes us through many of the authors previous Borne and Strange Bird threads and opens up the story into the much larger universe only hinted at in those other stories. It is a fascinating universe and a compelling story. It is filled with vast love and horror and science fiction.
The writing, although perhaps in places somewhat experimental or unconventional, feels tight, well-crafted, and a true work of art. In my opinion. For what that's worth. I feel as though there was great care taken not only in expressing something beautiful through words and English, but also through the rhythm and timing of the story and the structure of the novel as well. In all ways, I feel this may be Jeff VanderMeer's greatest work yet.
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from the book jacket at least 20 percent of the royalties from Dead Astronauts will be donated to The Center For Biological Diversity and the Friends of St. Marks Wildlife Refuge.I haven't grasped the full significance of everything in the book but maybe you will.I went and listened to the sample reading on audible and it made me frogg my thoughts about this book and I went back to it again. After my mother died I watched a series on BBA not Dr. Who but the main actor looked like Tom Cruise and was gay. In one episode everyone liked the pepperoni on the pizza shops pizza nobody knew where they got the pepperoni. And then you find out that it came from an enormous piece of live flesh being held captive. My mother would have understood this book a lot more than I do because she read a lot of science fiction and I have not.In this book the author writes about the cruelty of cost efficiency and I think if the book is skimmed over it is easy to miss. Some things in the book I have to believe are going on now perhaps not to the scale written about in the book. I don't understand everything in the book. When you read the parts that are the journal and one word is bold and the others faint I think the journal writer wrote the bold word over and over and is remembering the rest. But sometimes in real life you can write a word over and over and forgot some of the details you remembered when you wrote it.I give the book 5 stars but don't fully get all of it. Someday I will listen to it on audible.
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It was mindblowing. Five stars is not enough
Reviewed in Germany on December 6, 2019