‘Everything That Promised Glory Became Gory’: An Exclusive Excerpt From Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Dead Astronauts’

The author of ‘Annihilation’ returns to the post-apocalyptic world of ‘Borne’

Jeff VanderMeer
OneZero
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6 min readDec 2, 2019

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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. VanderMeer is the author

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Jeff VanderMeer
OneZero

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the NYT- bestselling Annihilation. Dead Astronauts is his latest novel, set in the Borne Universe and recently optioned by AMC.