The world may be ending, but there's always time for a good book.

Amid a terrifying political moment, escapism can be dangerous. But as we celebrate ten years of the Southern Reach trilogy, N.K. Jemisin reminds us that stories can help deconstruct colonial power.

The fourth Southern Reach novel, Absolution, launches on October 22nd, and author Jeff VanderMeer talks about following up the success of Annihilation.

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Just completed my newest piece, Area: X. This piece was inspired by The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer.… by clifffranksart

In Annihilation, the first of three novels in the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer, a party of unidentified individuals ventured into Area X, where they discovered—amongst other appalling alterations to that lost landscape—a tunnel, or a tower, and descended into its demented depths. What they saw there, what they felt—the writhing writing, the lighthouse […]

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