The bastard middle book of the Southern Reach Trilogy, Authority, is the one that keeps strike me, of my own work, as most reflective of how we can& #39;t get out of certain modes of thought, that our reactions are often to ghosts, to past hauntings.

I still remember on tour someone from high up in the EPA telling me Authority was darkly hilarious to them (intended, I might add) and that I wasn& #39;t far off in terms of institutional decision-making.