genre thoughts, reposted from a discussion in a group chat about the 2014 novel "Annihilation" 

> ...there should be a name for that genre: the one that looks at body-horror and paradoxical mind-games and so forth and goes "but what if this was okay, though"

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context re: genre thoughts, 2014 novel "Annihilation" 

on the first page of the first book of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, the protagonist describes a tower that her group has come across

she explicitly calls it a tower

it has no aboveground component - it is a staircase descending into the earth

this is the kind of eldritch we're talking about

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re: context re: genre thoughts, 2014 novel "Annihilation" 

@packbat doesn't seem that weird to me honestly? it's still (presumably) a structure that's much larger vertically than horizontally, i could see calling it a tower
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re: context re: genre thoughts, 2014 novel "Annihilation" 

@Felthry *nods*

that's part of what makes it work, I think - it's contradictory to what a tower is outside this context, but it also lines up with what a tower is. it still has that logic to it.

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re: context re: genre thoughts, 2014 novel "Annihilation" 

@packbat i'm pretty sure one of the discworld books that talks about dwarven society goes into how they have towers like this too, which might be part of why it doesn't seem odd to us--we've seen it before
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