The book gets more and more demented as it goes, and some sections are more coherent than others. Moss, Grayson and Chen are all important, but so is the blue fox – one of the Company’s creations that broke free – the broken-winged bird that serves as its sentinel, and its current owner Charlie X. it’s told non-linearly, and is less concerned with the ultimate fate of the Company than with how it got there. This is a more complicated story that that. This is Vandermeer.) The three of them are trying to stop the Company and prevent its destruction of the world, and in a more normal or standard story, that’d be what they do. Grayson is the actual astronaut of the three Moss is some sort of time-travelling lichen-ish being, and Chen is part salamander.
The “dead astronauts” of the title are Moss, Chen and Grayson, three lovers of infinite potential and strange powers. Dead Astronauts, however, takes this ending and runs with its implications – the idea of multiple Cities, multiple Companies, the disease of capitalism winding its way through multiple universes. I haven’t read Strange Bird yet, but I remember being slightly dissatisfied with Borne’s ending. Sitting back for a moment, this book makes the Borne universe all the better. Honestly it has a non-zero number of similarities with NGE, thematically and in terms of being surreal in a way that somehow, impossibly, makes you care. But the one that I can’t stop thinking about is the notorious “mind rape” scene with Asuka.
I was not prepared.ĭead Astronauts is the literary equivalent of that one scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion – well, okay, there’s multiple. I was confused, mildly curious and definitely tempted by the first chapter.
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