Get new reading guides by email
New guides and a few books from each. Occasional, never noisy.
Authority: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
$16.49
Skip to product information
Authority: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
$16.49
Returns: if a book arrives damaged or isn't the one you ordered, email us within 7 days of delivery and we'll replace it or refund you, usually with nothing to send back. Refund policy
Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Tense, Mind-bending
- Kind of story
- Weird fiction, Literary science fiction, Thriller
- About
- Identity, Power, Madness
- Pace
- Slow burn
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- None to speak of
Shipping is $5.00 on orders under $25 and free at $25 and over. Every book ships by USPS from a US book warehouse, and you get a tracking number by email the day it ships.
Questions? Email hello@spineboundbooks.com. We reply within one business day.
An independent online bookstore in Richmond, Virginia. About us Reading guides
Complete the set: The Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer
Read in this order. Absolution came out ten years later and is best read last.
- Annihilation$16.49 In your cart
- Authority (this book)$16.49 In your cart
- Acceptance$16.49 In your cart
- Absolution$17.49 In your cart
All 4 together: $66.96. Check shipping details.
Prefer one book? Area X collects the first three novels in a single hardcover. See it ($32.49)
Featured in our reading guides: Where to Start with Jeff VanderMeer and Books Like Project Hail Mary: What to Read Next
The second book in the Southern Reach trilogy trades the wilderness for something worse: an office.
John Rodriguez, called Control by everyone, has been installed as the new director of the Southern Reach, the agency charged with investigating Area X. His predecessor walked into the border and didn't come back. The building is full of people who resent him, files that contradict each other, and a plant in a desk drawer that shouldn't still be alive.
His only real lead is the biologist from the twelfth expedition, who returned from Area X without knowing how, and who answers his questions in ways that are technically responsive and completely useless.
Where Annihilation was a descent, Authority is a slow suffocation: bureaucratic dread, institutional rot, and the growing certainty that the agency studying the contamination was contaminated a long time ago. A New York Times bestseller. This special tenth anniversary edition includes an introduction by N. K. Jemisin.
Details
- Author: Jeff VanderMeer
- Introduction: N. K. Jemisin
- Series: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 2
- Format: Paperback, 10th Anniversary Edition
- ISBN: 9781250824059
Praise
-
Authority isn't a book that just picks up where the last one left off. Instead, it's packed full of new pleasures, not only new characters and settings but whole new kinds of writing.
Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Reader reviews on Goodreads
Real reviews and star ratings from Goodreads readers, shown as Goodreads publishes them. We do not edit or select them.
See this book on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)