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. Dead Astronauts, given its title, promises to reveal the identity of the astronauts and expand our understanding of the Borne Universe. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD 978-0374-27680-5, 27.00, 352pp, hc) December 2019. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission.

At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earthall the Earths. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST 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 blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit. Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. VanderMeer is the author of the Southern Reach trilogy, which began with Annihilation, and has long led the vanguard of the New Weird movement. 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. Illustration: Mario Tauchi This is an exclusive excerpt of Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts, a surreal and speculative novel to be published on December 3.

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