After that, the book completes its descent into the tumult. The “Company” left a disastrous world in which creatures (natural and un-) live in holding ponds and rubble and tunnels under bridges.ĭead Astronauts has a semi-linear narrative structure for the first third of the novel.
Both books assume that ecological disaster and foolish and evil choices leave a world littered with pollution, ashes and biotech failures. It might not make it easy, but it would give the reader a fighting chance.Īlthough Dead Astronauts is no sequel, there are echoes (foreshadows?) of Borne throughout (the blue fox, the duck with the broken wing, the Balcony Cliffs apartments, the ruined dollhouse, the leviathan, Nocturnalia, alcohol minnows, the man-bear). It also turns out that the reader would really benefit from having read Borne before picking up Dead Astronauts.
So they navigated two worlds: the new and the old. So they ran with a memory of the City without buildings. So they ran threaded through the breaches, found the seams. The narratives do not merely begin in medias res, but i n medios tumultus. Science fiction and fantasy stories often begin in a confusing, unfamiliar, disorienting place. Then I realized they were not astronauts but only looked like astronauts because the sun had bleached the contamination suits white, and I felt perversely less sad. Three dead astronauts had fallen to Earth and been planted like tulips, buried to their rib cages, then flopped over in their suits, faceplates cracked open and curled into the dirt. I came to the edge of a courtyard and a peculiar sight. A Brief Review of Dead Astronauts: A Novelīuy Now:
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