![]() ![]() So there are moments of tension created by allusions to things that will happen later, and that also allows for a bit more layering and depth. ![]() But, for me, it tends to help quite a bit in terms of perspective, since this particular journal account is written up after the events described. Jeff VanderMeer: I can only speak as to my own intent, and the readers decide whether it worked. ![]() ![]() What are the pluses of choosing the diary medium? Though VanderMeer is best known for his collection of fantasy short stories, City of Saints and Madmen, in our interview he insists that Area X was inspired by the "wondrous weirdness" found in nature, not a sci-fi novel.īookish: Annihilation is written as the biologist's journal, so the reader knows that the narrator is writing the story, rather than thinking it, speaking, or in some other way expressing the events. In the first installment of the Southern Reach trilogy, an expedition of four women (an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist, and a biologist) journey into the mysterious Area X, a land where nature has reclaimed what civilization built. With Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation released earlier this month, the Finch author has rapidly gained praise for his rich worldbuilding. ![]()
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