The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance

· HarperCollins UK
4.1
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’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian

ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON

For years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. But suddenly, it’s beginning to expand.

The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic.

Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all of their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

Get the trilogy that inspired Annihilation, the most anticipated motion picture of 2018, and uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Area X.

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4.1
17 reviews
Beck Ford
April 7, 2018
If you have an imagination, a wild, roaring, blazingly coloured imagination you may want to read this. It's nothing like the movie. Not better, not worse; it's a horse of a different colour. Soar like an angry albatross through the incredible scenery in this trilogy, but don't forget to come back down to earth every once in a while. You have to breathe.
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Anna Doyle
July 15, 2018
Annihilation, the first in the trilogy, was promising and an enjoyable read. I found the second and third books massively lacking in direction, disappointingly tedious in parts and, quite frankly, self indulgent waffle. Shame.
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Simon Blunsdon
January 22, 2018
Starts out really well, gets all confused as to what it wants to be and ends up being a lot of unnecessary words. Having said that, really enjoyed the concept of the story.
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About the author

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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