Metal objects launched into space observe perplexing humanity in this wildly inventive novel from the author of Only the Animals
– is a bolder and madder venture again. This time, Dovey’s first-person narrators are inanimate objects which have been launched into outer space, including the International Space Station; the Voyager 1 space probe; a mannequin by the name of Starman; a sculpture on the moon ; and a tampon, once belonging to Sally Ride.ridiculous, then they “clearly don’t understand that most space missions are performative and symbolic above all else”.
The object-narrators are particularly attuned to human language; its blind-spots and shortcomings. Once upon a time, Armstrong’s spirit reminds us, there were no words to describe oceans or forests, but gradually humans found them. In turn, he grapples to describe the moonscape; to capture in words the quality of its air and light; its highlands and rilles. The narrators also point out gaps in the astronauts’ emotional vocabularies.
As well as being a writer of both fiction and creative nonfiction, Dovey is a science writer. Only the Astronauts
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