SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

The New York Times bestselling third installment of Jeff VanderMeers wildly 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 itthe Southern Reachhas collapsed in on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers theyve been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.

Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area Xwhat initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area Xand who may have been corrupted by it? In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeers Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profoundor terrifying.