ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER
Locus Awards Finalist
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times,The Washington Post,New Yorkmagazine,Time,Kirkus,Literary Hub, Goodreads
Featuring a new introduction by award-winning author Julia Armfield.
Absolutionopens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrifying consequences for the futureand marks the Forgotten Coast as a high priority for Central, the shadowy federal agency that monitors extraordinary threats.
Many years later, the Forgotten Coast files wind up in the hands of a washed-up Central operative, Old Jim. He starts pulling a thread that reveals a long, troubling record of government agents meddling with forces they clearly cannot comprehend.
Old Jims investigation culminates in the first Central expedition into what has now been labeled Area X. A border has come down, and a full team has been assembled to find Area Xs off switch somewhere in the volatile, dangerous terrain that has defied all attempts to be explored, mapped, or controlled.
Absolutionconverges the past, present, and future in unnerving, ecstatic, and mind-bending ways. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
Jeff VanderMeeris the
New York Timesbestselling author of
Hummingbird Salamander, the
Bornenovels, the
Southern Reachseries, the
Ambergristrilogy, and
Veniss Underground. He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.
Some of VanderMeer's best writing...deserves to be mentioned alongside Poe, Chesterton and Borgess other exemplars of the unheimlich, whose confrontation with the uncanny is central to the mission of speculative fiction.
Alec Nevala-Lee,The New York Times l3=
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