If this sounds overstuffed, it’s because it is. After the first few chapters, fragmentary subplots bubble up: there is Charlie X, a rogue astronaut from the expedition fighting to hold on to his memories amid a creeping amnesia a massive sea monster awaits its death a mysterious journal containing knowledge of demons that foretells the coming of the monster Behemoth is passed between survivors a total darkness called Nocturnalia threatens to engulf the dead city and a shapeshifter confronts a cosmic duck over ownership of the journal. Into this unpredictable landscape come three astronauts, Chen, Moss, and Grayson, determined to explore their otherworldly environment, which is watched over by a mysterious blue fox that seems capable of transcending time and space. VanderMeer returns to the hallucinatory world of Borne, where an all-powerful company has ravaged a metropolis known only as the City, in this lackluster novel.
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