It is winter in Area X. 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 only more daunting.In the final installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying.
"[A] wonderfully creepy blend of horror and science fiction…Speculative fiction at its most transfixing."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on the Southern Reach trilogy
"VanderMeer weaves together otherworldly tales of the supernatural and the half-human."
Booklist (starred review) on the Southern Reach trilogy
"The concluding volume of VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy brings each of the series's narrative threads together for an enigmatic but satisfying conclusion…In many ways, this is the most mysterious and puzzling book of the three: VanderMeer employs multiple flashbacks and POVs, which contribute to a multifaceted, mutating portrait of Area X. The pacing of the narrative is slower, but the reade
