area x the southern reach trilogy annihilation authority acceptance

In 'Authority,' John Rodriguez, aka 'Control,' is the team's newly appointed head.

After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in 'Annihilation,' ''the Southern Reach-the secret agency that monitors these expeditions-is in disarray. 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. 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. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. 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. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization.

Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. In time for the holidays, 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.

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Area x the southern reach trilogy annihilation authority acceptance