Beelzebub's library

For those of you who do not know, there is a webcomic series called “Deep Dark Fears”, where people submit anxieties they have or weird or traumatic ideas and fears that they had as children. It’s a great comic for anyone who has anxiety and invasive thoughts, and I used to especially love them because to me they embodied a mindset that I found it hard to come by.             I love the idea of paranoid delusion. I have loved it since 2014, when I would spend all day listening to creepy-pasta’s on YouTube, in the mostly empty apartment where my family was living at the time. I was already very misanthropic at the time and to me, this view of the world, as being uncertain and filled with dark things that we can’t notice, was very enticing.             I’m not as paranoid as I think I once was, but I still suffer from a lot of the same anxieties and issues and I feel this...

Authority is less engaging than Annihilation, but it has a better story.             Annihilation has a simple concept that provokes the imagination. Authority, perhaps by virtue of being a sequel, has the obligation of having a harder to explain the premise.             John Rodriguez, or Control, is the new director of Southern Reach, the organization which is in charge of monitoring and explaining Area X. The organization has decayed significantly since Area X popped into existence, setting the stage for an interesting setting along with posing some very cogent questions in this day and age. How do you solve a problem that no seems to care about? Should you even try?             Like Annihilation, this book brings up questions about climate change and humanity vs Nature and our own role in society and the role of...