![]() ![]() A shadowy para-governmental body, the Southern Reach, set up to investigate Area X, sends out numerous expeditions to comprehend it, but members of these expedition teams return with their minds blank, as if they have become strangers in their own lives, then die unnaturally swiftly from aggressive forms of cancer.Īnnihilation is the first novel in the astonishing Southern Reach trilogy by the American writer Jeff VanderMeer, and it lands us straight into the heart of things with the 12th (and final) expedition’s journey into Area X. ![]() It can be entered and left from only one point along an invisible border. In the remote southern coastal area of an unnamed country a bizarre and baffling phenomenon called Area X has manifested itself. The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation Authority AcceptanceĪll Fourth Estate: 195pp, £10 341pp, £12.99 352pp, £12.99 ![]()
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