#Dead Astronauts

[ech0ech0ech0]

Love across space and time

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War // Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

[infernape]

for my first polymer clay creation i made the blue fox from the borne series by jeff vandermeer. hes not perfect but i love him and im quite proud. now watch him spin

[huusmaesta]

People who hope Absolution will give them answers about what Area X actually is clearly never have read Dead Astronauts.

[usercannibal]

- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

[hermywolf]

fuck that blue thang

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

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[eshtaresht]

there is not a single day when I don't think of this dead astronauts quote. because dead things felt only love for the universe. if you even care

[dandelion-network]

Slowly but surely making my way through Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer - roughly 60% through. I'm a big fan of VanderMeer and was excited to read this having read Borne a few years ago.

Dead Astronauts feels more like a dreamscape than Borne, meditative even. I can see why some people struggle with the writing style of this particular work by VanderMeer compared to the others but I find it comforting, it's comforting me through the loss of a friend. Perhaps its the acceptance of death, loss, change experienced as a creature experiencing life. Change being the most prominent theme throughout all of VanderMeer's works.

In this story you kinda have to just accept what is being described and painted and transmitted to you, sorta letting it glide through your fingers like water. If you try to grasp onto it with a vice grip, you're going to struggle with it for sure. In a way, though again I'm still reading it, the story feels like it's happening backward. Spacetime works very differently but I'd say the narrative itself is slowly walking backwards to explain what you've already experienced in the first half of the story.

All of this to say, I'm really liking Dead Astronauts.

[crunchity-munchity]

I think about the magician from the Borne series so often. Because you get a glimpse of how horrifying she is in Borne but you don't see the extent of it until you read The Strange Bird. She's HORRIFYING

When I first got into the series the first book I read was Dead Astronauts. Charlie X is the sort of antagonist in the book but even still he's incredibly sympathetic.

You learn slowly that he's a very broken man who was constantly just a victim of his environment until eventually being put at the helm. Reading how he interacts with the Magician in the strange bird is horrifying. She uses him and abuses him. Forcing him back into the same position he was with his father.

You also see a few small glimpses of her interactions with Wick. She stalks him. She uses his mistakes and regrets as leverage against him, making his note to Rachel even more depressing

Shes so well written, an amazing antagonist

[shisasan]

Dead Astronauts - B Side (Perturbator Remix)

I know she's coming She's coming for me

[ech0ech0ech0]

Existence

Bears In Trees, Sun Machine // @ AnastasjiaLuna on Twitter // Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts // @oaj // @ elesq on Instagram // @ gendersauce on Instagram with art by @ il_etait_lune_fois on Instagram // David Almond, Heaven Eyes

[asteriskhearts]

I will never shut up about how good Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer is,

its poetry and prose all in one

it plays with form like a less-fucked House of Leaves

it has an amazing ecological apocalypse

the cover art goes oh-so hard

there are queer characters in it

the story is pretty staunchly against capitalism

long story short i will do pretty much anything to get people to read this book

[infernape]

doodles of the blue fox from dead astronauts

[loo-nuh-tik]

She wants She wants You dead Christine She screams "off with his head"

[harkthorn]

I recently read Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer, so had a blue fox on the brain, and got him out as a sketch.

Ballpoint, Micron, Ecoline, PD photo for bg

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Link to photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/51599688213/

[swallowedabug]

what's the last book you read that you loved? 👀

Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer!!! I only loaned it from the library because I loved the cover and then it turned out to be one of the best things I've ever read.