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Also part of her body has turned into green moss which is not something you usually see in psychologists.
The Psychologist yells "Annihilation!" several times. The Biologist knows this is a hypnotic command for her to kill herself. Yes, that's where the title of the book came from. It has nothing to do with the story at all, it's simply rooted in this piece of trivia. Anyway, hypnotic commands don't work on the Biologist anymore since she got shot with spores.
The Biologist asked why the Psychologist jumped off the lighthouse. The Psychologist says she was afraid that a monster might be chasing her, even though she never saw a monster, and got so scared that she jumped off. Does this make any sense to you? No? Good!
Click here to see the rest of this reviewThe Psychologist said that she ordered the Anthropologist back inside the Tower because she needed more information, but never explained why the two of them went back alone.
The monster killed the Anthropologist and turned part of the Psychologist into alien moss. The Psychologist tells the Biologist that she can tell that the Biologist is also changing. The Psychologist tells the Biologist that the borders of Area X are expanding.
Then the Psychologist says the only thing that makes sense, which is "We should never have come here!" That's right, this was a job for the army, not four girls with pistols.
Then the Psychologist died. But don't worry, she'll be back later.
The Biologist is chased by a moaning monster in a marshland. The monster is fast! There is no escaping it!
Then the Biologist escapes from the moaning monster.
The next day, the Biologist returns to the base camp. The Surveyor is there and she shoots the Biologist twice.
Why? Why ask why? Nothing makes sense in this book.
But the Biologist is only mildly harmed. The spores will heal her quickly. The Biologist says about 500 times that there is a "brightness" within her, which represents the alien disease which is changing her body. I like how the author talks about the same things, like "brightness" over and over and over, in case we missed it the first 100 times he mentions it.
Then the Biologist shoots the Surveyor in the head. After that the Surveyor is very dead, though we do see her again in the next book.
The Biologist hoped the Surveyor would forgive her for shooting her in the head. Yes, she really thought that. The Biologist may be a head shooting marksman, but she's also very sensitive.
The Biologist rolls around in the grass and jerks like a chicken. The "brightness" is changing her. Maybe her boobs got bigger, heh heh.
The Biologist realizes people are being turned into monsters. This tremendous revelation is repeated over and over for three books.
The Biologist reads the journal of her husband, who went on the previous expedition. Hubby's expedition got attacked by a monster and many of them died. But after they died, her husband saw the other members of his expedition walking around again, and even saw another copy of himself, and realized they were zombie duplicates, created by the monster. It was at that point that the Biologist realized that the man who returned home to her hadn't been her husband, and that she had actually been riding on the p_nis of a zombie duplicate. The husband's last entry suggested he was going to walk around on the beach for a while (instead of running home at full speed.)
The Biologist, after learning that the monster was creating duplicates of people, decided to return to the Tower for a third time. Does this make sense? No? Good!
The Biologist went down the stairs and found the monster. There are pages of descriptions of it. It is basically a slime monster with a writing arm. It uses the writing arm to write on the walls of the Tower. She called the slime monster the Crawler.
The Biologist opened her mouth and took part of the alien within her. Yes, she basically gave the alien a blowjob.
After the alien climaxed and squirted within her, the Biologist awoke from an awesome orgasm. Her throat was raw, probably from swallowing all that alien sperm.
She realized she was actually below the Crawler on the stairs. She decided to go down to the very bottom!
At the very bottom she found a door, filled with light! This now is the climax of the book, are you ready?????
The Biologist goes to the door of light and.... turns away from the door and goes back the way she came, up the stairs. Is this not the ultimate cock tease or what? By the way, in three books, we never get to find out what is behind this door of light.
The Biologist passes the Crawler on her way up and seems almost disappointed that the Crawler, having had an orgasm recently, is not interested in mouth sex with her again. But the Biologist recognized the Crawler as having been (past tense) the lighthouse manager, who she saw a photo of in the lighthouse. The Crawler must have been the lighthouse manager before he was turned into the Crawler.
The Biologist notes that she has seen a cone of energy being emitted from the Tower, and realizes that the alien infestation is spreading, but now she kind of likes it. Alien blowjobs will do that to a girl.
The Biologist decides to keep wandering at random around Area X.
The End.
Isn't that a tremendous ending? Or, perhaps it's extremely disappointing.
Anyway, on to the next book in the series....
Book 2: Authority
So after reading the first book, you're wondering what Area X is all about. What are the aliens up to? What's happening in the Tower? What's behind the door at the bottom?
Book 2, Authority, answers none of these questions. In fact, the story doesn't even take place in Area X but outside of it, in the headquarters of the Southern Reach, the organization which keeps sending expeditions into Area X to be killed, turned into zombie duplicates, or shredded into alien food supplements.
Believe it or not, most of Book 2 is about office politics, which have only superficial connections to the story from Book 1.
In Book 2 we find out that the Biologist, the Surveyor, and the Anthropologist have returned from Area X. But since we know that the Surveyor and the Anthropologist are already dead, and the Biologist is slowly turning into a monster, that none of these three are real. They are alien monster duplicates. The reader knows that from the first pages, but the investigators in this book take 200 pages to find out what the reader knows. Isn't that exciting?
The director of the Southern Reach is named John, but everyone calls him Control. His deputy is named Grace, and there's a crazy scientist named Whitby. Control's boss is called "Voice" because Control only speaks to him on the phone.
Control is the new boss of the Southern Reach. His Mommie is a very important lady in the organization and got him his job. Before Control, the previous director was the Psychologist from the last book. Yes, none of the others knew it, but the Psychologist was actually the director of the Southern Reach.
The Biologist and the other two suddenly appeared outside of the barrier surrounding Area X, and have no memory of how they returned. The Biologist was found inside an empty lot. There are pages and pages and pages of discussion of the significance of the Biologist having returned in an empty lot. It reminds me of the pages and pages of discussion about whether to call the Tower a tunnel or a tower.
Control interrogates the Biologist, who claims to remember nothing of Area X. Then, not satisfied, he interrogates her again, but the second time learns nothing. Then he interrogates her a few more times, and guess what, he learns nothing.
The interrogations, however, are a relatively small part of the book, as most of it is office politics and a focus on small things. Control finds an alien plant in a desk drawer and spends pages and pages of thoughts thinking about the alien plant.
