<div dir="ltr">Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume (<i>Annihilation)</i>, but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like <i>Authority</i> quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. <br>
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