Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. Looking out over that untroubled landscape, I do not believe any of us could yet see the threat.įor thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border - an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Our expedition was the first to enter Area X for more than two years, and much of our predecessor’s equipment had rusted, their tents and sheds little more than husks. The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach Trilogy – Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance. Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac.
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