Literature and Fiction · Hardback

The Astronaut Monologue

Norwegian title: Astronautmonologen

Terje Dragseth

The Astronaut Monologue Kafka meets Star Trek in a mythic space odyssey

On the spaceship Seahorse, in a galaxy far, far away, Astronaut #9950 records solar energy while drifting through deep space. When he's not alone on his spaceship, he's in the White City where he meets Dora Diamant, the woman of his dreams. The Austronat is hunting for a mysterious super sonic sound: A U M. but he is not the only one looking for it. But so is Molok, an artificial intelligence sent by the All-Machine, the dominant force in the universe. Together, the Astronaut and Dora must defy a cosmic power that wants to control the vibration that moves all things. A surreal, poetic, and genre-defying novel about memory, myth, and machinery told in a language as visionary as the cosmos it describes. This is the Astronaut's story.