Authority
by Jeff VanderMeer · first published 2014
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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 is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves.
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This year has been a year of fiction for me. I haven't hit my goal yet but I've got some time still! Annihilation (Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer Authority (Book two of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer Acceptance (Book three of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer Artemis - Andy Weir The Breach (Book one of the Travis Chase trilogy)…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, second part of the Southern Reach trilogy.
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗Lots of scifi. Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse…
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