"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority,...

The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory---she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife...

When cyberterrorists shut down the internet for good, causing communications to collapse, Mary, who lives in the Croft -- a digital no-man?s land, uses her gift of seeing those presumed dead to stay alive in this new world order.

Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demigoddesses, populate Ovid's famous Metamorphoses. But what happens when the chase is tracked in the voice of the quarry? When the maiden coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When monstrous transfigurations come sung by those transformed? Wake, Siren lays bare the violence lurking in the heart of Ovid's narratives and breaks down these myths that helped build and perpetuate a limited, limiting portrayal of...

Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life-- his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father. He intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly wise reflections on the world, social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short,...