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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own . . .
” And so H. G. Wells opened his thrilling The War of the Worlds
in 1897. Since then millions of readers have shivered and shrieked
at his depiction of a Martian invasion of Earth. The tale has
become part of our cultural memory, but Wells didn’t tell the
whole story. He never gave us the Martian side of the conflict.
Now, Joseph Dougherty, the Emmy-winning writer, reports on the
invasion of Earth from an up-close-and-personal Martian point of
view. Dougherty views Wells’s epic battles from an all new,
painfully modern perspective. Our narrator is Vvv, a reluctant
conscript on board The First Cylinder to reach Earth in the
invasion. Vvv is the Martian incarnation of all reluctant warriors,
from Yossarian in Catch-22 to Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five.
War is hell . . . for aliens and humans alike. Sardonic and
heartrending, tragic and comic, The First Cylinder is a breakout
science fiction novel in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Ray
Bradbury.
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Authority
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Jeff Vandermeer
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'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE
EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING
NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON
Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in
'Annihilation', the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy
introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency
responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent
grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself
remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known
only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to 'put his
house in order'. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden
notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the
mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves-and what they expose
pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and
the agency he's promised to serve. Undermined and under pressure to
make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a
labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more
he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister
than anyone could have known.
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