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message 1: by Drace (last edited Oct 15, 2025 07:38AM) (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7655 comments There are merges that need to be carried out on the book Authority by Jeff VanderMeer.

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780007553464

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – Duplicate of ASIN B00K71XUWW, but the duplicate has the right art and the actual ASIN has incorrectly been given the UK hardcover art. [Edit: Accidentally linked the edition that currently has the correct ASIN, fixed now.]

3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... – This edition is the ACE for the UK ebook, ISBN 9780007553495, but it was never assigned the ISBNs it should have. The following steps need to be taken:

3A. Create the following ACE:

TITLE: Authority
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
INTRODUCTION: N.K. Jemisin
ISBN-10: 0007553498
ISBN-13: 9780007553495
ASIN: 0007553498
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate
DATE PUBLISHED: August 1, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 352
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION:

Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ‘Annihilation’, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to ‘put his house in order’.

From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve.

Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://harpercollins.co.uk/cdn/shop/... // https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/...

3B. Merge it with the above edition.

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4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... – This edition is the ACE for the US audiobook, ISBN 9781482987454, but it was never assigned the ISBNs it should have. The following steps need to be taken:

4A. Create the following ACE:

TITLE: Authority
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
INTRODUCTION: N.K. Jemisin
NARRATOR: Bronson Pinchot
ISBN-10: 1482987457
ISBN-13: 9781482987454
ASIN: 1482987457
PUBLISHER: Blackstone Publishing
DATE PUBLISHED: July 30, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 11
FORMAT: This is where things get a bit weird. ISBN 9781482987454 is used for both the US digital audiobook and the library edition CD audiobook editions. I will leave which format is chosen up to superlibrarian discretion.
DESCRIPTION:

The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy. This 10th Anniversary Edition of Authority features a new introduction by Hugo Award–winning author N. K. Jemisin.

For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (a.k.a. "Control") is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://dsxuu8etcj8kw.cloudfront.net/... // https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/aut...

4B. Merge it with the above edition.

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5. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... – This edition is the ACE for the US ebook, ISBN 9780374710781, but it was never assigned the ISBNs it should have. The following steps need to be taken:

5A. Create the following ACE:

TITLE: Authority
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer
INTRODUCTION: N.K. Jemisin
ISBN-10: 0374710783
ISBN-13: 9780374710781
ASIN: 0374710783
PUBLISHER: FSG Originals
DATE PUBLISHED: August 1, 2024
NUMBER OF PAGES: 352
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION:

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.

John Rodriguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.

In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9... // https://us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

5B. Merge it with the above edition.


message 2: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7655 comments Giving this a bump.


message 3: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7655 comments Another bump for visibility.


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