Southern Reach Trilogy

I deletef it because of a typo.
You are still a retard.

I just finished the series yesterday, weirdly enough, and I’d definitely recommend them.

The first book was my favourite but the other two are still good.
The second book is more set up like a detective story, it’s about a guy being put in charge of the agency and trying to piece together various mysteries while people are lying to him and trying to sabotage him, and everybody has an agenda etc. It’s a great story, it’s just really different if you are expecting basically a continuation of the first book.

The third book cycles between three different timelines, which (IMO) absolutely wrecks havoc with the pacing of the book, and made it my least favourite as a book. But two of the three stories are interesting enough, and the third one has its moments. One at least takes place back inside Area X so you get the good ‘weird nature’ stuff that you probably came for. The best parts of the third book are probably the best parts of the whole series, it’s just far less consistent.

It’s only ‘unnatural’ if the mere existence of characters being gay or black strikes you as always unnatural or artificially added. In general it works with the characterization. The black assistant director has a chip on her shoulder because she had to work her way through school and then through the ranks of the agency only to have somebody else installed as director just because he comes from a family dynasty of agents. The lighthouse keeper being gay doesn’t seem out of place when you consider his story as a former preacher who ran away from his ministry and went to become a lighthouse keeper in middle of nowhere Florida that is repeatedly described as being made up of a collection of strange folks who also washed up there.

Biologists are maximum autismo and psychologists are cunts

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Annihilation (the first one) is by far the best, but I think it's worth reading the whole trilogy, even if the second one is a definite low point. The cosmic/Lovecraftian horror was done in a surprisingly original way, I think, and parts of it were genuinely scary.

It’s still a genre fiction series so accusing them of having bad characterization is a little weak. Horror/sci-fi/weird fiction do generally have weak characterization. But that reviewer is vastly overstating how bad he does it.

Is this about apartheid?

its about your anus

No, I’d say not really. I think it would be a stretch to say that is a theme of the book.

Descent is superior in every way.

Does anybody else have examples of ‘weird nature’ stories?

It's a mindfuck

The italian version looks so dope that makes me want to resume my studies in italian just to be able to read it

I read the first two and liked them quite a bit. They can be quite slow and atmospheric.

The books are good. You don't really notice the forced diversity because the characters' sex or race is not really that important to their identity or in the story. As it should be.

Just read "the colour out of space", normie

When people criticize VanderMeer for ‘forced diversity’ it’s pretty obvious they are just objecting to the mere existence of gay or black characters, bc it’s as minimally referenced as possible across the 700ish pages of the series.

No. There isnt any overt "sjw agenda" pushing.

a gay male character isnt gonna start sucking dick spontaneously, a black woman isnt gonna start slapping her cornrows. These "ethnic or sexual characteristics" dont mean they're gonna start acting stereotypically.