![]() ![]() Little details, like the exact mechanics of how the salamanders connect together like the Constructicons from Transformers to build Chen, never materialize. Moss looks like a human woman, but often splits into a cloud of nanobots in order to pass through walls and other creatures. Chen, who appears to be a human man, used to be a Company mathematician and sometimes dissolves into a pile of salamanders. Grayson, the leader, a Black human woman, once worked as an astronaut orbiting the earth. Meanwhile three bipeds, named Grayson, Chen, and Moss, wander the wilderness together looking for the City. As the technology shifts, the blue fox and his fellow questors struggle to determine how they literally transform in an unpredictable world built to be cryptic and sparse by design.Ī blue fox, never named, flits into the wilderness where he gathers like foxes and promises to make them mighty and save them from the machinations of humans, who have basically polluted this entire world. The mythic properties of these quests light up a tech-run world that has become completely alien from the humans who built it and cast bizarre shadows in the reader’s mind. Biotech monsters run rampant here as an apocalypse rages, but in the midst of it all, two separate quests intersect. This novel, set in the universe of his 2017 novel, Borne, is neither a sequel nor a prequel, just another story in the same neighborhood. Jeff VanderMeer’s newest novel, Dead Astronauts, is a machine designed to generate questions, not only about the effect of humans on nature, but on the cycle of evolution itself. ![]()
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