Authority - (Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority, the second volume, is here. For thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X has taken the form of a series of expeditions monitored by a secret agency called the Southern Reach. After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez, aka "Control," is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves--and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that. The Southern Reach trilogy will conclude in fall 2014 with Acceptance"--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in <i>Annihilation</i>, the agency is in complete disarray. <p/>John Rodrigues (aka Control) is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve. <p/>In <i>Authority</i>, the<i> New York Times</i> bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>Authority</i> isn't a book that just picks up where the last one left off. Instead, it's packed full of new pleasures, not only new characters and settings but whole new kinds of writing. If <i>Annihilation</i> is an expedition novel painted with a thick coat of weird, then <i>Authority</i> is a spy novel given the same dark lacquer . . . Which makes me desperate to know what the third book is going to be like--whether it will be some mixture of the two, <i>Jurassic Park</i> meets James Bond, or some third thing entirely." --<i>Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</i> <p/>"The great thing about <i>Annihilation</i> is the strange, elusive, and paranoid world that it creates. The great thing about <i>Authority</i> is the way it takes the premises that we think we know about that world and turns them inside out, destabilizing everything in a way that makes it even more strange and elusive, and makes us the ones who feel paranoid. A stunning book, followed by a second stunning book that makes you rethink the first." --<i>Brian Evenson, author of Last Days with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"A clear triumph for VanderMeer, who after numerous works of genre fiction has suddenly transcended genre with a compelling, elegant and existential story of far broader appeal." --<i>Lydia Millet, Los Angeles Times with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Unsettling and un-put-downable--like an old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written, and not at all old-fashioned." --<i>Karen Joy Fowler, BookPage with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Chilling." --<i>Julie Bosman, The New York Times with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Ingenious." --<i>Laura Miller, Salon with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Enthralling." --<i>Tara Wanda Merrigan, GQ with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Fans of the <i>Lost</i> TV series . . . this one is for you." --<i>Molly Driscoll, The Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/>"[<i>Annihilation</i>] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again." --<i>Annalee Newitz, io9 with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Successfully creepy." --<i>Sara Sklaroff, The Washington Post with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Fascinating." --<i>John Domini, Miami Herald with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"[<i>Annihilation</i>] teases and terrifies and fascinates." --<i>Kevin Nguyen, Grantland with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Dazzling." --<i>Peter Straub, author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i> <p/>"Haunted and haunting." --<i>Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners with praise for THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jeff VanderMeer</b> is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's <i>American Fantastic Tales</i> and multiple year's-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.
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