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Acceptance

But the comfort of the familiar cannot be discounted, even when one considers the familiar rather tedious. So I launched, pell-mell, into Acceptance within a day of closing Authority. Can I blame the publishers for having all three books published within the same year? Probably not. Did the availability—the difference between joyously snoozing past your alarm on a workday and popping up full-awake at 7am on a lazy Sunday morning—contribute to my burnout, or might I never have returned at all if time had forced distance?

David DinaburgMay 27, 2023horror, trilogy, Science Fiction

Annihilation

Plotwise, not a whole lot actually happens. Its strength lies in the cohesiveness of its narrator and her interpretations of the world as it shatters around her. She remains the same, for the most part, and learning about her is a treat. That she’s rational to the point of robotic makes her the perfect narrative lens and accounts for some of her actions; as readers, of course we want the narrator to take the dangerous, almost ludicrous risks. “No coincidence, no story.”