'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular' NEW STATESMAN 'A lasting monument to the uncanny' GUARDIAN 'Chilling' NEW YORK TIMES A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With an introduction by N. K. Jemisin After thirty years, the secret government agency known as the Southern Reach has been unable to solve the mysteries of Area X, a seemingly ...
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'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular' NEW STATESMAN 'A lasting monument to the uncanny' GUARDIAN 'Chilling' NEW YORK TIMES A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With an introduction by N. K. Jemisin After thirty years, the secret government agency known as the Southern Reach has been unable to solve the mysteries of Area X, a seemingly malevolent landscape wiped clean of human civilisation. Or is "pristine wilderness" a better description? Expedition after expedition has failed to come up with answers, often disastrously. The Southern Reach, in the process, has become a backwater agency, forgotten and underfunded despite the urgency of its mission. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. Enter John Rodriguez (aka "Control"), the Southern Reach's newly appointed director. Working with a distrustful team desperate for success, Control must navigate a maze of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage. What does it all mean? Can he reach some kind of understanding before it's too late? In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, many of Area X's most disturbing questions are answered ... but the answers are far from reassuring. 'Very, very scary!' WIRED 'Extraordinary' SLATE 'Successfully creepy' WASHINGTON POST
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After the amazing short little weird fiction/adventure novel that Annihilation was, I was really hoping for more of the same from Authority. If you are too, you will be sorely disappointed. Authority adventure-wise just follows the new director of the Southern Reach in the same circle between his house and the facility for the majority of the book, with a MUCH heavier focus on dialogue and thoughts in his head than anything actually happening. For so much of the book, I just couldn't help but think, "wow, this is kinda like VanderMeer went on a huge tangent and couldn't get back to it." You're left feeling frustrated, like not much is actually happening, being explained, or being resolved. All while watching the new director go slowly mad all the meantime, and sort of understanding how he feels... The climax really is a decent pay-off, but after the enormous drag of the meat of the book, it really feels underwhelming. I still somewhat liked it, and Annihilation was so good that I will without a doubt read Acceptance. However, in my opinion, Jeff could have probably sliced out 100 pages of this book, inserted more insights into Area X, and made it a bit more enjoyable of a read.
david f
Jul 21, 2014
Great Book
I loved both Annihilation, and Authority. I'm waiting, with baited breath,for Acceptance to complete this trilogy. I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good, written, science fiction mystery.
