Absolution : a Southern Reach novel / Jeff VanderMeer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

VanderMeer, Jeff, author.

Series:

VanderMeer, Jeff. Southern Reach trilogy ; bk. 4.

The Southern Reach series ; [4]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.

Quests (Expeditions).

Scientific expeditions--Fiction.

Scientific expeditions.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

Scientists--Fiction.

Scientists.

Psychic ability--Fiction.

Psychic ability.

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Science fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Summary:

"When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestseller list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature. And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast--before Area X was called Area X--had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem? Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. There are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time"-- Provided by publisher

"A continued exploration of the mysterious Area X by the scientists and voyagers that VanderMeer introduced ten years ago in the original volumes"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780374616595

0374616590

OCLC:

1430989017