# Authority *The Urth list — 5 messages, 5 voices, 20 May 2014* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Antonin Scriabin *20 May 2014, 19:32* Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( *Annihilation)*, but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like *Authority* quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. --- ### Fred Kiesche *20 May 2014, 19:33 · in reply to Antonin Scriabin* It'll be up after Gannon - Gaiman - two Butler's - one Wolfe (I'm preparing for two different SF podcasts); all my non-directed reading is on hold. I blew through Annihilation in about a day, loved it. Looking forward to the second and third. > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Antonin Scriabin > wrote: > Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? > I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( > *Annihilation)*, but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of > slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume > really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it > interesting, even when it meanders. I like *Authority* quite a bit, and > am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Piotr Szczęsny *20 May 2014, 19:43 · in reply to Antonin Scriabin* I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into Shriek, so I have authority on hold. 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" napisa?(a): > Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? > I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( > *Annihilation)*, but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of > slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume > really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it > interesting, even when it meanders. I like *Authority* quite a bit, and > am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Craig Brewer *21 May 2014, 15:57 · in reply to Piotr Szczęsny* Authority is a fun ride, but much of what it shows seems to be setting up for the third. There's plenty of fun weirdness along the way, but I thought Annihilation played up the "Weird" brilliantly. I expect that Acceptance will cap it off well. Odd to say, but I feel like I won't know what I think about the second one until I read the third. I thought Whitby was an amazingly drawn...character? Person suffering and trying to maintain himself? But his appearances were always my favorite. I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into Shriek, so I have authority on hold. 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" napisa?(a): Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume (Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *21 May 2014, 16:17 · in reply to Craig Brewer* Craig - Your message turned up in my Spam filter. I think gmail is doing that to yahoo addresses kind of at random. --Dan'l > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Craig Brewer wrote: > Authority is a fun ride, but much of what it shows seems to be setting up > for the third. There's plenty of fun weirdness along the way, but I thought > Annihilation played up the "Weird" brilliantly. I expect that Acceptance > will cap it off well. Odd to say, but I feel like I won't know what I think > about the second one until I read the third. > > I thought Whitby was an amazingly drawn...character? Person suffering and > trying to maintain himself? But his appearances were always my favorite. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Piotr Szcz?sny > *To:* The Urth Mailing List > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:43 PM > *Subject:* Re: (urth) Authority > > I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I > started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into > Shriek, so I have authority on hold. > 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" > napisa?(a): > > Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? > I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( > *Annihilation)*, but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of > slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume > really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it > interesting, even when it meanders. I like *Authority* quite a bit, and > am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. > > _______________________________________________ ---