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Done.Some by other people on 5 Dec & 19 Nov. Some by me.
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1. US Hardcover: Absolution (ISBN 9780374616595)
- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding my copy, and the page count ends at 441.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the book jacket:
TOP SECRET: A clear and present threat exists. Open-ended. Existential. Confirmation via uncanny op. Nature of same: Unknown. Initiating entity: Unknown. Priority: High.
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance – award winners and international bestsellers all, the first the basis for a now-classic film – Jeff VanderMeer brings us back for a surprise fourth and final foray into Area X.
Absolution opens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrifying consequences for the future – and marks the Forgotten Coast as a high-priority area of interest for Central, the shadowy government agency responsible for monitoring extraordinary threats.
Many years later, the Forgotten Coast files wind up in the hands of a washed-up Central operative known as Old Jim. He starts pulling a thread that reveals a long and troubling record of government agents meddling with forces they clearly cannot comprehend. Soon, Old Jim is back out in the field, grappling with personal demons and now partnered with an unproven young agent, the two of them tasked with solving what may be an unsolvable mystery. With every turn, the stakes get higher: Central agents are being liquidated by an unknown rogue entity and Old Jim’s life is on the line.
Old Jim’s investigation culminates in the first Central expedition into what has now been labeled Area X. A border has come down, and a full team – well trained but eccentric – has been assembled to find Area X’s “off switch” somewhere in the volatile, dangerous terrain that has mysteriously defied all attempts to be explored, mapped, or controlled. A landscape that, one way or another, seems to consume all who enter it.
Sweeping in scope and rich with ideas, iconic characters, and unpredictable adventure, Absolution converges the past, present, and future in terrifying, ecstatic, and mind-bending ways. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
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2. US Ebook: Absolution (ISBN 9780374616601)
- The page count is incorrect. It should be 464.
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3. Missing Edition: US Audible
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ASIN: B0D33SC327
PUBLISHER: Blackstone Publishing
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 15
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION:
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy.
When the Southern Reach Trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestsellers list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.
And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer 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?
Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/4Kcbq7e
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3. Missing Edition: CA Audible
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ASIN: B0DF3C23BF
PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 15
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 2]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/cCVRSgb
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4. Missing Edition: CA Digital Audiobook
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ISBN-10: 0771024703
ISBN-13: 9780771024702
ASIN: 0771024703
PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 15
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 2]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo...
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5. Missing Edition: UK Hardcover
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN-10: 0008725977
ISBN-13: 9780008725976
ASIN: 0008725977
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 528
FORMAT: Hardcover
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 1]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://harpercollins.co.uk/cdn/shop/... // https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/...
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6. UK Kindle: Absolution: The new Southern Reach Novel – a thrilling surprise and final foray into Area X (ASIN B0D3B4WYVS)
- The title has a bunch of extra crap in it. It should just be Absolution.
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7. UK Ebook: Absolution: The new Southern Reach Novel – a thrilling surprise and final foray into Area X (ISBN 9780008726003)
- The title has a bunch of extra crap in it. It should just be Absolution.
- As per Goodreads policy, the ISBN-10 0008726000 also needs to be put in the ASIN field.
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8. Missing Edition: UK Audible
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ASIN: B0D63J5RWW
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 15
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 2]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/0xS2Z3s
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9. Missing Edition: UK Digital Audiobook
TITLE: Absolution
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ISBN-10: 0008726019
ISBN-13: 9780008726010
ASIN: 0008726019
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 15
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION: [same as Entry 2]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://harpercollins.co.uk/cdn/shop/... // https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/...
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10. CD Audiobook: Absolution (ISBN 9798874810542)
- Bronson Pinchot needs to be added with the narrator role.
- The page count is missing. It should be 15.
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11. MP3 CD Audiobook: Absolution (ISBN 9798874810559)
- Bronson Pinchot needs to be added with the narrator role.
- The page count is missing. It should be 15.