Weird fiction is meant to challenge the reader, and these books succeed with style. As different intrepid souls try to uncover the truth behind Area X, they endanger not only their lives, but their very sanity.Īrea X collects all three novels in VanderMeer’s gloriously strange Southern Reach Trilogy, stories that vary in tone-expedition mystery, bureaucratic noir, and investigative thriller-but that all leave you feeling unsettlingly unmoored after reading them. Numerous expeditions have failed, either lost entirely or returned as broken people or shadows of their former selves. The Southern Reach has been exploring Area X for years, trying to understand what transformed the land into a baffling alien landscape.
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