Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy

Jeff VanderMeer

ISBN 10: 0374261172 / ISBN 13: 9780374261177

Editore: FSG Originals, 2014

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SIGNED. First Edition. Thirteenth printing with complete number line starting with 13. Signed by Jeff VanderMeer on the title page. The book is tightly bound with good tips and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Cluster of faint, tiny white dots on top fore-edges. The dust jacket is unclipped ($35.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 595 pages. 6 1/2" X 8 1/2" tall. Southern Reach is a secret agency that manages expeditions into an area known as Area X. The area is an uninhabited and abandoned section of the United States which nature is gradually reclaiming. ?Área X: The Southern Reach Trilogy? is the collection of three novels (?Annihilation?, ?Authority?, and ?Acceptance?) published by VanderMeer in 2014 ?Broadly speaking, the (three) novels?are eco-sci-fi: they?re about researchers exploring a mysterious, deadly, and unaccountable wilderness called Area X. They imagine nature, both human and wild, in a new way. And they take a surprising approach to language: in addition to being confounding science-fiction novels, they are fractured, lyrical love letters to Florida?s mossy northern coast.? ? New Yorker review. Codice articolo 9168

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Titolo: Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy

Casa editrice: FSG Originals

Data di pubblicazione: 2014

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014.

Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.
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.
This is the twelfth expedition.
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.
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.
After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach-the secret agency that monitors these expeditions-is in disarray. In Authority, 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 reveal themselves-and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.
It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown-navigating new terrain and new challenges-the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying.

L'autore:

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 nonfiction 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.