Chris
Vandermeer has such a way of writing nature that every time I open the book I feel humid heavy air around me, the mysteries of the natural world echoed through Area X. I don’t know if a resolution to this mystery can ever be satisfying but the journey certainly is, and Vandermeer’s exploration of who we are to ourselves and to others, that form a powerful through line through both Annihilation and this work.
Vandermeer has such a way of writing nature that every time I open the book I feel humid heavy air around me, the mysteries of the natural world echoed through Area X. I don’t know if a resolution to this mystery can ever be satisfying but the journey certainly is, and Vandermeer’s exploration of who we are to ourselves and to others, that form a powerful through line through both Annihilation and this work.