(urth) VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy

Antonin Scriabin kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 05:55:37 PDT 2014


I plan on picking up the third volume this evening.  Been a great series so
far.
On Sep 8, 2014 8:54 AM, "Fred Kiesche" <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am part of the (now Hugo Award winning) SF Signal Podcast at SF Signal
> Dot Com and on the last episode I particiapted in I was asked to suggest a
> book for a "group read" and suggested the first of the Southern Reach
> trilogy by VanderMeer.
>
> (Alas, the plan was then sideswiped by real life when our host had family
> issues hit him but maybe in October?)
>
> So keep an eye out there, at some point we'll all get together and talk
> about the book for an episode.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Piotr Szczęsny <neternalz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've also read the first one and liked it very much (instantly preordered
>> the other two). Authority and Acceptance are waiting for me back home so I
>> think I , just like Fred, read them soon. This is kind of a Vandermeer year
>> for me, City was something different but most of the "stories" were
>> enjoyable (Dradin in Love is still my favourite) but Shriek was great,
>> loved the double narration.
>> 8 wrz 2014 12:27 "Fred Kiesche" <godelescherbach at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>
>>> All three were out this year. I've read the first and found it quite
>>> interesting, a homage to Poe or even van Vogt (how much going on is real or
>>> a dream?). I'm saving the other two up for a long weekend (they are
>>> relatively short, so I can see reading the other two in three days or so).
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey, did I miss folks talking about Jeff VanderMeer's latest? Did all
>>>> three novels really come out this year? Does that mean it's really one
>>>> great honking novel chopped up into "SF" sized pieces (hmm, that sounds
>>>> familiar.)
>>>>
>>>> I really enjoyed _City of Saints and Madmen_, but haven't read anything
>>>> more by him. I'd love to hear what people think.
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>>> scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with
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> Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Catholic
> Liberal Conservative Militarist. Does not fit into a neat box or category.
> "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble,
> scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with
> Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at Bernal
> Alpha. On Twitter as @FredKiesche
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