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‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces By Paul Di FilippoSpecial To The Washington Post Share The easiest thing for Jeff VanderMeer to do after the success of his Southern Reach trilogy (which includes the novel “Annihilation,” adapted for the screen by Alex Garland) would have been to continue in that same vein: spooky, Lynchian, Tarkovskian, “X-Files” adventures in contemporary wilderness settings. Instead, he wrote “Borne,” a futuristic post-collapse urban disaster tale, followed by “The Strange Bird,” “Dead Astronauts” and the YA novel “A Peculiar Peril.” There were some commonalities among the divergent adult offerings: mainly, female protagonists facing the entropic degradations of the biosphere, amid cascades of surreal incidents. But the differing narrative venues, modes and atmospheres in each sequence exhibited VanderMeer’s insistence on clothing his perennial themes and obsessions in diverting new

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