The Southern Reach Series - Book 3
Acceptance
“The concluding installment of the Southern Reach trilogy ends where the story began: in a cloud of hallucinatory mystery…This trilogy represents an interesting pivot for VanderMeer: Although sharing many of the same motifs—metamorphosis, unusual fungi, and other organic material, a pull toward the sea—it’s actually more restrained (if no less vivid) than the lush baroquerie of his earlier works. We leave knowing more about Area X than we started; we may not understand it any better, but we leave transformed, as do all travelers to that uncanny place.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In this climactic volume of the Southern Reach series, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying. This 10th Anniversary Edition of Acceptance features a new introduction by award-winning author Helen Macdonald.
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.
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