Southern Reach Trilogy: Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy--Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance (Audiobook)

from michaeladams1979

The Area X trilogy is excellent. Well written, the prose is detailed, evocative, and at times appropriately lush, while never being overwrought. His characters are whole, complex human beings, they have hopes, dreams, & memories; they make mistakes, they have petty work rivalries. VanderMeer give...

from Widsith

Jeff VanderMeer's lush, eerie New-Weird trilogy combines the American cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft with the post-human fecundity of some of JG Ballard's apocalyptic visions. I am still not sure how successful it is - but it has ambition, and a clutch of great ideas, and an admirable reluctance t...

from thejohnsmith

A novel plot with interesting characters but it didn't manage to hold my interest all that tightly. Worth reading but I found it a bit flat on the excitement scale.

from RossWhippo

Absolutely weird, surreal, and disturbing. A one of a kind story, if David Lynch ever wrote scifi, this would be it.

from booklove2

I read 'Annihilation' a few months back, and was intrigued enough to read 'Authority' and 'Acceptance' now. 'Annihilation' is like a quick punch of weird, with a likeable character (the biologist) despite her need to remain at a distance from all things except nature. Where 'Annihilation' is eart...