Clarity Isn't The Point In Confusing, Absorbing 'Dead Astronauts'
Jeff Vandermeer's new novel, set on a far-future, post-apocalyptic earth, follows a trio of only vaguely human astronauts through a shifting, allegorical story that jumps back and forth across time.
Jeff Vandermeer's latest novel, , is a kaleidoscopic and fractured mosaic: In a long-changed, post-climate-apocalypse world, a trio of saboteurs — or escapees — or simply survivors — attempt over and over again to dismantle the work of the Company, an entity which may have once been a biotech corporation but now churns out broken and altered-beyond-recognition monstrosities in an endless stream. The three — who are, they are allegories, figments, fables for a dissolving world where narrative and language are as subject to corruption as modified flesh.
