Area X

The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance

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<p><b>A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling first three volumes of the Southern Reach Series.</b><br><i><br>Annihilation </i>is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, <i>Authority </i>is the second, and <i>Acceptance</i> is the third.<br><br>In <i><b>Annihilation</b></i>, Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.<br><br>This is the twelfth expedition.<br><br> Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.<br><br> They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers-they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding-but it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.<br><br> After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in <i>Annihilation</i>, the Southern Reach-the secret agency that monitors these expeditions-is in disarray. In <i><b>Authority</b></i>, John Rodriguez, aka "Control," is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to revea

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780374261177

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

223 x 163 x 50 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan USA