Authority (Southern Reach #2)

by Jeff Vandermeer

the building had probably stood here then in some form, reverse engineered so far into the past that you could still look out the windows and see dragonflies as big as vultures.

“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.”

And that perhaps Whitby had figured something out, even if no one had believed him, even if figuring it out had exposed him to something that had then figured him out.