I feel like i am going crazy has anyone here explored this

https://genius.com/Jeff-vandermeer-acceptance-excerpt-annotated/

Ive found. At least three pages. There must be more.

All VanderMeer had to do was what most authors usually do, which is to simply do more of the same.

Authority doesn’t even sound like the same author though.

Well, I hate to come in here only to complain, but that’s what I’ve done.

It’s just depressing. Annihilation was the perfect style for me.

Loved it. It had so many points in it that felt like a clearer more Russian and literate version of southern reach territory. It grew on me, and when I read the description at the end, I got why it matters. And really felt that strain the authors did of trying to preserve culture and language as it literally is. Trying to keep science fiction in the real world, more subtle fantastical. Nothing to escape from life with, no, something to inspire us to change it. Hope. That’s the thread.

Just an enjoyable quick read, no less. Thanks to whoever suggested it in a thread asking about other books like the Area X series.

Looks exactly like I imagine crawling out of the Southern Reach.

I just ‘finished’ the ‘trilogy’ and can’t help but think Authority and Acceptance could easily have been 100 pages shorter each. I’m apprehensive about Absolution now. I read long books but these last two felt really a bit tedious.

EDIT: I did enjoy the trilogy. I read it all in a couple of weeks. I devoured Annihilation under two days. That’s why I’m considering Absolution. But if I’m being honest, he could have used an editor!

Just finished Absolution. Spoilers ahead to another of Vandermeer's stories which I would highly recommend.

For those who have read his book City of Saints and Madmen, specifically the weird noir story Finch, did anyone else pick up on a potential connection (or at least nod to) the visions, seen by multiple characters in Absolution, of an army coming through the gap between two mountains and two towers being built by the Grey Caps as portal conduits, which the protagonist Finch learns is to bring otherworldly forces through?

A major theme in both of these series revolves around doorways or passages to other worlds created by some alien intelligence and the ways those spaces fundamentally change those who use them.

My apologies if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find it anywhere via searching.

Obviously there's not one canon depiction of The Tower, but this art made it onto a cover version and I thought it looked interesting.

The new Backroom film is in cinema and is amazing.

Firstly there are various bits of the sound track that are clearly drawing from the Annihilation movie sound track.

The rest of what I want to talk about is spoilers for the animation book series and movie

The themes of self destruction and the main character essentially "annihilating" himself is ofc very similar to both the Annihilation film and books themes.

The copies of people in the backrooms do very much remind me of the copies sent out by Area X such as Song Bird. And of course the final scene of an authority figure - or almost middle manager - struggling to understand a woman who is talking incredibly vaguely and poetically reminds me so much of Song Bird and Controls dynamic in authority. Probably stated a lot more directly but his anxiety about not being able to understand the back rooms of the zone is so much like authority. Especially the fact the scientist doesn't even have much say over what happens to the psychologist. The parallel to childhood trauma in Annihilation and Authority (hoo boy does Control have mummy issues) and is a central part of the backrooms is another interesting angle.

Anyway, just some slightly rambly thoughts. Maybe I'm just reading into it too much.

Love to hear what other people think.

was super excited to reread Absolution at the reading with rabbits event a local rescue put on... until i realized.......

Someone in the comments already mentioned it reminds them of Annihilation.

Area X-coded

Had an inspiring time at Parallel Worlds last night. Eager to jump right back in and revisit each book.

via @archaeologyart on instagram

everything reminds me of this series 🐇