Everyone in the book seems to be lying or on some kind of acid trip. The main character is "Control" who is now interviewing "the biologist" found alive facing the walls in the parking lot after the exploration in Area X from Book 1. So what do the biologists know what's going on in Area X. ...
When I started Authority I liked it just because it's so "normal" compared to Annihilation. Then I realized it's twice as long as Annihilation and nothing happens until the very end. Authority wasn't good enough to hold my interest in the series so I'm stopping here. [spoiler] (I read a summary o...
Whereas Annihilation took place inside Area X, Authority takes place outside, at Southern Reach. The folks at Southern Reach are charged with studying Area X, putting together expeditions to send into it, and potentially protecting the world against Area X and whatever might come out of it. Unfortun...
Not as into this as the first book. Not at all. I understand the tone change, but I guess the shift after the wonderful first book is just an unavoidable let-down. I like Control a lot, and I like the biologist a lot, and I really hope the final book doesn't end with the culmination of Typical Lead ...
Authority (Southern Reach #2) Jeff VanderMeer, 2014 Area X - a mysteriously pristine landscape with an invisible border that disappears anyone who touches it - has been the target of a series of expeditions over the past thirty years. Unfortunately, after twelve expeditions, the government agenc...
For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (aka “Control”) is the team’s newly appointed he...
I am enthralled with this series. There is a level of elusive, gothic mystery so rare in the writing, a line the author catwalks between logical whodunit and utter disorientation. I feel like I've read a sci-fi mashup of Rebecca and Naked Lunch. There's nothing quite like it, and it feels really nic...
Jesus Christ. Not as tight as the first, but still suffused with the same Gothic panic: institutional spaces, rotting, claustrophobia, lies. The director of Southern Reach, which is a clandestine organization tasked with monitoring Area X, interviews the biologist from the previous novel, returned b...
The slow moving, Lovecraftian horror of this series continues to bewitch me. I actually had to stop reading this book in order to ground myself. I needed a break from the lyrical language spinning through my head. And my favorite thing, each of these novels is self-contained. Oh yes, they all deal w...
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