The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy.

'Creepy and fascinating' Stephen King.

Welcome to Area X. An Edenic wilderness, an environmental disaster zone, a mystery for thirty years.

The inspiration for the major motion-picture starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Issac.

Jeff VanderMeer's New York Times-bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His other books include Hummingbird Salamander, Dead Astronauts, Borne (in development as a TV series at AMC), and The Strange Bird. VanderMeer has lectured at MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Columbia. Most recently, he gave the John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His Florida reporting has appeared in Current Affairs, TIME, the Nation, and Esquire. VanderMeer lives in Tallahassee.