The Southern Reach Trilogy - Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 3)
’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian
THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON
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 this last instalment 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.
Praise for ACCEPTANCE and the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY: -
”'I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating” - Stephen King
”'Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels” - Adam Robert, Books of the Year, Guardian
”'This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece … Remarkable … Tense, eerie and unsettling … VanderMeer writes much better prose than Poe ever did … This is genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived” - Guardian
”'A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike … 'Annihilation' shows signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience” - Sunday Telegraph
”'A lasting monument to the uncanny … You find yourself afraid to turn the page” - Guardian
”'VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease” - Financial Times
”'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular … The imaginative daring and reach with which VanderMeer has invented and executed a concept such as Area X is breathtaking … Powerful and echoing” - New Statesman
”'Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel … A major work” - SFX Magazine
”'A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it” - Lauren Beukes
”'Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent” - Warren Ellis