After teaching Annilihation once again and finding it improves on re-reading and re-teaching, I decided to go read this late fourth installment of the trilogy. I read Authority and Acceptance ten-ish years ago and remember them only vaguely as somewhat disappointingly un-weird. Perhaps VanderMeer felt the same, since Absolution is aggressively weird. The first half is quite good and recaptures some of that "surrender to the weird" magic of Annihilation. The second half is more one-note, and though I like sweary monologue as much as the next manchild, it got a bit tiring. I did not have a great sense of what was going on, or if the first three volumes were being explained or rewritten or what. Leaning on time travel was a bit disappointing to me.

The climate politics? I think its climate politics is that ecosystems are precious and fragile and domestic spying agencies should be more professionally run? Hard to tell really.

(comment on Absolution)