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What to read this weekend: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X

The surprise fourth book in the Southern Reach series is here, along with a new issue of Creepshow and a scientist's account of studying the open sea.

Absolution, the fourth novel in what previously stood as a trilogy, hit the shelves this week and it takes us back to the beginning of Area X and the ill-fated first expeditions to explore it. And while you probably shouldn’t expect Absolution to neatly wrap it all up, it does give us more insight on the early days of the anomaly and the perspective of key characters in that timeline, like Lowry. Issue #2 contains two stories — one about a Halloween sleepover that takes a grisly turn (by Eugenio Mira and Jorge Fornes), and another about a haunted building that might not be what it seems (by John Ridley and Stefano Raffaele).

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