A leviathan waits, as do other versions of yourself, and a mysterious former comrade known as Charlie X. Where a fight in which the duck may or may not be on your side. This is a world where a blue fox is an echo across space and time, prophetic. The City is overrun with the results of the Company’s ill-considered experiments. Grayson, Moss, and Chen are astronauts turned rebels, navigating version upon version of a nameless City created by the villainous, all-powerful Company, familiar to readers as part of the Borne universe. “There shall come three humans across the burning sands…” Subterranean is upgrading the paper to 80# Finch from their usual stock. In addition to the dust jacket, the book will also feature a number of linocut illustrations by Kathleen Neeley tipped in. This signed, limited edition will reproduce the unique design elements of the trade hardcover essential to the telling of the story, and also be printed in two colors throughout to make those details further stand out. ”'There's beauty as well as horror here moments of weaponised whimsy, plus his usual clear-eyed ecological themes.Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Kathleen Neeley. ”'A genuinely innovative artwork requires time to fulfil its effect. Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts is one such work - bewildering, perplexing, original - and I would recommend that readers allow it the concentration it demands … this kind of formal innovation is pure catnip, an indication that as a mode of literary expression the novel is still vigorous, still developing and still important” - Guardian At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth – all the Earths. Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation.

A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.Ī messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. 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.

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