Southern Reach Trilogy – serie

‘A contemporary masterpiece’GUARDIAN ‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING ‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’FINANCIAL TIMES ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new introduction by award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s now-classic Southern Reach series, Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades and nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. Expedition after expedition into Area X has failed to uncover its mysteries and the true nature of its danger to the world.Now a twelfth expedition makes the attempt, a group of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist and the narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X.A harrowing cosmic mystery at the vanguard of eco-fiction, Annihilation has only become more pertinent to our reality ten years after its first publication. ‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting’ GUARDIAN ‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’NEW YORKER ‘The best bits turn your mind inside out’ WASHINGTON POST ‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

‘Astonishing, frightening, spectacular’NEW STATESMAN ‘A lasting monument to the uncanny’GUARDIAN ‘Chilling’NEW YORK TIMES A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With an introduction by N. K. Jemisin After thirty years, the secret government agency known as the Southern Reach has been unable to solve the mysteries of Area X, a seemingly malevolent landscape wiped clean of human civilisation. Or is “pristine wilderness” a better description? Expedition after expedition has failed to come up with answers, often disastrously. The Southern Reach, in the process, has become a backwater agency, forgotten and underfunded despite the urgency of its mission. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.Enter John Rodriguez (aka “Control”), the Southern Reach’s newly appointed director. Working with a distrustful team desperate for success, Control must navigate a maze of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage. What does it all mean? Can he reach some kind of understanding before it’s too late?In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, many of Area X’s most disturbing questions are answered … but the answers are far from reassuring. 'Very, very scary!' WIRED 'Extraordinary' SLATE 'Successfully creepy' WASHINGTON POST

‘Pure reading pleasure’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing’ GUARDIAN ‘Powerful and echoing’NEW STATESMAN A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With an introduction by Helen MacDonald Area X has rebuffed expedition after expedition for decades, refusing to reveal its secrets. As it expands alarmingly, the Southern Reach agency tasked with its investigation has collapsed in confusion. Now, one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may yet hold vital answers. How was Area X created, and why? Can it be stopped?In this climactic volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, reality mutates and mysteries resolve, but now that so many questions have answers, the consequences are no less profound – or terrifying. 'Pure reading pleasure' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER 'Contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels' GUARDIAN

In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened …Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in `Annihilation’, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to `put his house in order’.From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves—and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve.Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.