|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
Due to an unexplained event, a section of the coastal South U.S. is closed off, visited only
by a series of expiditions sent by the government to learn more about the strange things
taking place there. We learn a little more about the mystery, and the various deceits
and double crosses, but not a whole lot, including character names, motivations, interests or
personalities. Well, that may not be entirely fair, but neither was spending 200 pages
with this effort.
A short and mostly uninteresting read. The author is, I have learned, part of the 'new weird'
school of writing, and it felt for the mercifully short duration of this book that he was
trying too hard to live up to whatever that means. A clumsy blend of horror and suspense seems
to be the halmark of this new genre, and I suppose if this text is to be described in any way it
would be that. This is the start of a trilogy, which I think will remain unexplored!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
