Authority: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)

by Jeff VanderMeer

Book Overview

SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

In Authority, the New York Times 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.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250824052
• ISBN13: 9781250824059
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.8" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Very Good

This is a prime example of a great bridge novel between the first and 2nd.The main character, known to his peers as Control brings a lot of depth to the "interrogation" of the biologist. He provides a much needed insight into the Southern Reach, the station who sends out the expeditions into Area X as well as a great soundboard for the biologist to interpret what she experienced in the first novel to an outsider. Jeff Vandermeer writes a very compelling world of underhanded interactions, oddly disjointed relationships, and a mystery woven with existential dread and horror. A great read and continuation to the first novel.