


To leave this strange anomaly that has popped up on the East Coast of the United States unexplored and unknown. That they are going in - entering through a weird door, into an evolving disaster of undefinable dimensions - because the only other option is to not go. There is the sense, right from the start, that they are a kind of sacrifice. In Annihilation, book one in the trilogy, a team of explorers enters the mysterious Area X. To make any of this make any kind of sense, because Southern Reach is not the kind of series where you can just drop in at book two or three and have any idea what's happening. But before I can do that, I have to talk about the first two books. We have to backtrack a little here, right at the start.Īcceptance, book three in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, is hitting the shelves soon, and I want very badly to talk about it. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Acceptance Author Jeff Vandermeer
