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Ambergris jeff vandermeer5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The cast of characters here each have layers and motivations - usually inscrutable - of their own: Grace, the assistant director who believes the previous director is still alive Cheney, the head of the science department and fellow scientist Whitby, who frequently acts as Control’s guide. Throughout, Control reports his progress and findings - often couched - to The Voice, a shrouded, mysterious figure known only as a (digitally masked) voice on the phone. Control finds offices in decay and disarray, a shrinking staff divided into factions loyal to the previous director and “lifers” who are in it for the weird science and/or have nowhere else, really, to go. We do see the biologist often in Authority, but it is through the eyes of agent/operative John Rodriguez (aka “Control”), newly appointed acting director of the Southern Reach, interrogating her after her reappearance along with the other survivors of the expedition depicted in Annihilation. In Authority, VanderMeer pivots from the first-person journal of the unnamed biologist (read by Carolyn McCormick) which introduced “Area X” in Annihilation to an exploration of a different, though as uncanny and surreal, terrain: the organization which sent her into “Area X” in the first place, the Southern Reach itself. ![]() Another surreal expedition into the uncanny ![]()
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