The New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff
VanderMeer's wildy popular Southern Reach Trilogy
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied
explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition,
refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked
with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed
on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border,
determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've
been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.
Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances
surrounding the creation of Area X--what initiated this unnatural
upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to
understanding Area X--and who may have been corrupted by it?
In this New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff
VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be
solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound--or
terrifying.