Moderated by Word of South co-founder Mark Mustian, Jeff VanderMeer will discuss his new novel, Dead Astronauts. The event will be followed by a book signing.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways.

A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.

VanderMeer, "The weird Thoreau,"* makes a mind-bending, form-stretching, altogether dazzling return to the universe of Borne to address one of its central mysteries: the three dead astronauts at the crossroads of the City. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth—all the Earths. What further terrifying miracles might their stories

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JEFF VANDERMEER is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’s best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann VanderMeer. Jeff is the author of Borne and The Southern Reach Trilogy. Find him on Twitter @jeffvandermeer.

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NOTE: For those unable to attend the event who wish to order a signed, personalized copy of DEAD ASTRONAUTS, which is released 12/3, please either stop by the store, call us at 850-425-2665, or email tanya@midtownreader.com.
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