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batwoman411 's review for:
Dead Astronauts
by Jeff VanderMeer
While I LOVED Borne, Dead Astronauts was a hard read for me. I do appreciate VanderMeer’s writing style and his experimental fiction elements. But I found this story 1) too disjointed and 2) too dark. The prose was impressionistic and unformed in places, relying on our familiarity with Borne’s earth. In other places, VanderMeer is dead on, clear, and direct.
His message about human rape and plundering of the natural world is cutting and accurate. In fact I think my favorite section of the book is the Blue Fox’s narrative of revenge, his sardonic illumination of human hypocrisy. We are a silly and shortsighted species. We ruin anything beautiful.
I looked for hope in the narrative, and really, it appeared that hope lay in the form of freedom through death, which substantiates reason #2 for why I had a hard time with this book. Are we really doomed to ruin our world to the point where death is a relief from living in it? Read this book and join me in my wondering.
His message about human rape and plundering of the natural world is cutting and accurate. In fact I think my favorite section of the book is the Blue Fox’s narrative of revenge, his sardonic illumination of human hypocrisy. We are a silly and shortsighted species. We ruin anything beautiful.
I looked for hope in the narrative, and really, it appeared that hope lay in the form of freedom through death, which substantiates reason #2 for why I had a hard time with this book. Are we really doomed to ruin our world to the point where death is a relief from living in it? Read this book and join me in my wondering.