Authority

Name: Authority
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN: 9780008139117

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'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular'NEW STATESMAN'A lasting monument to the uncanny'GUARDIAN'Chilling'NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERWith an introduction by N. K. JemisinAfter 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

ISBN9780008139117

PublisherHarper Collins Publ. UK

Publication Date07/30/15

ISBN9780008139117

PublisherHarper Collins Publ. UK

Publication Date07/30/15

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3.0
Elender Slowburn & unzugänglicher Protagonist
Durch diesen Band musste ich mich wirklich quälen. VanderMeer schreibt in einem derart zerfaserten Stil, sich ständig selbst unterbrechend, dass ich streckenweise nicht mehr wusste, wer grade spricht und worum es grade geht. Ärgerlicher Weise macht dieser Stil absolut Sinn im Zusammenhang mit der Story. Man könnte es fast impressionistisch nennen. Die Belohnung am Ende ist wunderbar, aber sie kommt erst auf den letzten zwanzig Seiten. Auf zum nächsten Teil…
Mar 28, 2025
3.0
Elender Slowburn & unzugänglicher Protagonist
Durch diesen Band musste ich mich wirklich quälen. VanderMeer schreibt in einem derart zerfaserten Stil, sich ständig selbst unterbrechend, dass ich streckenweise nicht mehr wusste, wer grade spricht und worum es grade geht. Ärgerlicher Weise macht dieser Stil absolut Sinn im Zusammenhang mit der Story. Man könnte es fast impressionistisch nennen. Die Belohnung am Ende ist wunderbar, aber sie kommt erst auf den letzten zwanzig Seiten. Auf zum nächsten Teil…
Mar 28, 2025
teipu
1 Followers
teipu
1 Followers
1.0
Giving up on this. it took me nearly a month to get through 1/3 of the book. i feel kind of bad to have my first book of the year be something I can't finish, but booooy this is boring. i liked the first part so much, how can the second part to be so excruciatingly boring? i read the wikipedia summary of the book and even that read extremly boring and I couldn't stand the thought of pushing through this book. the summary for book three sounds somewhat more interesting (though not by much) but there is now way i'll spend more time on this series!
Dec 19, 2023
1.0
Giving up on this. it took me nearly a month to get through 1/3 of the book. i feel kind of bad to have my first book of the year be something I can't finish, but booooy this is boring. i liked the first part so much, how can the second part to be so excruciatingly boring? i read the wikipedia summary of the book and even that read extremly boring and I couldn't stand the thought of pushing through this book. the summary for book three sounds somewhat more interesting (though not by much) but there is now way i'll spend more time on this series!
Dec 19, 2023
sarlocked
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sarlocked
4 Followers
3.0
2.5/5 Well, I really really loved Annihilation, but I really struggled with the second book in this series. I still really enjoyed the writing style, but the plot, in parts, bored me. There were parts in this book where I really had to force myself to keep reading and I still can't really say why. Maybe it was the protagonist, that I never really got a hold on to, or the Southern Reach in itself with its strange staff. I wished that I would've enjoyed Authority as much as I enjoyed Annihiliation, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Nevertheless, I will continue the series, because the ending, again, left so many questions open that I want to have answers to, but, for now, I need a break from the Southern Reach.
Oct 20, 2023
3.0
2.5/5 Well, I really really loved Annihilation, but I really struggled with the second book in this series. I still really enjoyed the writing style, but the plot, in parts, bored me. There were parts in this book where I really had to force myself to keep reading and I still can't really say why. Maybe it was the protagonist, that I never really got a hold on to, or the Southern Reach in itself with its strange staff. I wished that I would've enjoyed Authority as much as I enjoyed Annihiliation, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Nevertheless, I will continue the series, because the ending, again, left so many questions open that I want to have answers to, but, for now, I need a break from the Southern Reach.
Oct 20, 2023