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A biologist enters the supernatural Area X under the orders of a clandestine government agency to find out what strange events are happening inside, and also perhaps in order to find herself.
At its core, this book tells of a scientific attempt at understanding the unknowable, but intervowen with a tale of humanity and loss. This premise reminded me a lot of Solaris (both the book and the 2002 movie, which Lem famously hated), and it gave me the same somber, uncanny feeling.
The premise of a stran ...more
At its core, this book tells of a scientific attempt at understanding the unknowable, but intervowen with a tale of humanity and loss. This premise reminded me a lot of Solaris (both the book and the 2002 movie, which Lem famously hated), and it gave me the same somber, uncanny feeling.
The premise of a stran ...more
Uncanny and horrific, and incredibly compelling because of that
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