01664cam a2200361 i 4500 1606707604 TxAuBib 20241105120000.0 240422s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024017378 9780374616595 HRD 30.00 0374616590 HRD 30.00 (OCoLC)1430989017 TxAuBib rda VanderMeer, Jeff, 1968-, author. Absolution [BOOK] / Jeff VanderMeer. First edition. New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. xi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Southern Reach ; 4 "There was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast—before Area X was called Area X—had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?". 20260206. Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. Scientific expeditions Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Scientists Fiction. Psychic ability Fiction. Science fiction. Southern Reach ; 4.