Southern Reach Trilogy: ACCEPTANCE by Jeff VanderMeer
The Southern Reach T rilogy has been a polarizing reading experience for me; mostly because of the meandering second installment Authority . That being the case, I don't think I could give this entire series a perfect grade in spite of all the overwhelmingly positive reviews it got from a lot of critics and even veteran authors like Stephen King himself. There are, however, amazing aspects to the first and third novels that I really found myself deeply immersed in, and these deserve due credit for this review. The one thing that stopped it from becoming one of of my top favorite sci-fi novels (next to Frank Herbret's DUNE, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End ) is most probably because of its experimental nature that was unevenly delivered and executed on paper. An off-beat favorite sci-fi books of mine that was not a classic like the ones aforementioned is Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days.