Imagine George Smiley tracking down not some Soviet mole, but instead the insidious creatures in Philip Kaufman’s 1978 film version of Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers." The middle book in the sequence, Authority, takes a step back and marries John Le Carre’s Cold War moral ambiguity to the same Kubrickian landscape of the previous book. This is the landscape of Florida made as alien and unknowable as the narrator is unreliable. Annhilation is a book of slow moving dread, creeping up on you as if Stanley Kubrick decided to make 2001 an adaptation of Lovecraft instead of Arthur C. Each novel is an amalgam of influences made whole. On Annihilation and Authority: "These novels are the pinnacle of the New Weird.
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