Acceptance
From the publisher--- It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril. Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X--what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X--and who may have been corrupted by it? In this New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound--or terrifying.
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- Lots of scifi.
Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach
Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency
Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture
Of Peter F Hamilton:
- The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence
- The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void
Of Alastair Reynolds:
- Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice
- Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion
Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:
- Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud
- Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race
- Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay
- Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...
Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade
Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first
- This year has been a year of fiction for me. I haven't hit my goal yet but I've got some time still!
Annihilation (Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Authority (Book two of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Acceptance (Book three of the Southern Reach trilogy) - Jeff Vandermeer
Artemis - Andy Weir
The Breach (Book one of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Ghost County (Book two of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Deep Sky (Book three of the Travis Chase trilogy) - Patrick Lee
Runner - Patrick Lee
Signal - Patrick Lee
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle
The Eye of the World (Book one of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt (Book two of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn (Book three of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising (Book four of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven (Book five of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
The Way of Kings (Book one of the Stormlight Archives) - Brandon Sanderson
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm currently reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. Book two of the The Stormlight Archives.
I'd say the biggest surprises for me would be Patrick Lee. I DEVOURED these books. The Breach, Ghost County, and Deep Sky are a trilogy. They reminded me of X-files crossed with Navy Seals but that doesn't really begin to really describe the books.
I can't believe I got through so much of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The first book was so-so but the story really picked up in the second book. I'm getting to the part of the overall story that people say gets tedious and boring but I haven't experienced this at all yet.
I just finished The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson a few days ago. It's definitely one of my favorite books of all-time. It may be my favorite fantasy book but I won't know until I try to re-read it. I re-read The Hobbit every year. I never seem to get sick of it. It's going to be hard to knock this off it's thrown but damn is The Way of Kings close!
This is also the first year I've ever read so many works of the same author over and over. I probably won't do it again next year. Except for maybe Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan. I found it was _usually_ harder to get into the writing once I got such a familiar feel of their style and storytelling. This didn't hold true for Sanderson and Jordan they are still blowing me away.
