Jeff Vandermeer

Acceptance: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)

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’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian
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It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown — navigating new terrain and new challenges — the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this last instalment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound — or terrifying.
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314 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • tyahas quoted6 months ago
    a list of “conditions required for Area X to exist” that include

    • an isolated place

    • an inert but volatile trigger

    • a catalyst to pull the trigger

    • an element of luck or chance in how the trigger was deployed

    • a context we do not understand

    • an attitude toward energy that we do not understand

    • an approach to language that we do not understand
  • tyahas quoted6 months ago
    “We lack the analogies” was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X. Making you think of all the dead and dying satellites sent hurtling down into the coordinates that comprised Area X, because it was easy, because space debris winking out of existence made a perverse kind of sense, even as turning Area X into a garbage can seemed like the kind of disrespect that might piss off an insecure deity. Except Area X never responded, even to that indignity.
  • tyahas quoted6 months ago
    Somehow that created an uncomfortable doubling effect, too, one that she argued about in her own head. Because she did not agree with her own decisions at times—the biologist’s decisions.

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