As they press deeper into the unknown the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting.The mysteries of Area X may have been solved but their consequences and implications are no less profound or terrifying. One last desperate team embarks across the border determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. See all the pieces in this month’s Slate Book Review. But as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice the self-styled Control must battle to put his house in order. The Southern Reach Trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. 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. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. One has ended in mass suicide another in a hail of gunfire the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. For thirty years Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border an environmental disaster zone though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.The Southern Reach a secretive government agency has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X.
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