The Southern Reach Trilogy Special Limited Edition!

"Creepy and fascinating." — Stephen King

"Reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world." — Kim Stanley Robinson

The Southern Reach Trilogy: The Deluxe Oversized Signed Special Edition!
by Jeff VanderMeer

About this Special Edition:
Gathered together in this beautiful, oversized special edition is the complete text of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). These books landed on more than thirty Year's Best lists, including Entertainment Weekly's Top 10, and Paramount Pictures recently released a critically acclaimed movie based on the first volume starring Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Natalie Portman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

About the Book:
Area X—a remote and lush terrain—has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization.

The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything...

Published as a Slipcased Hardcover Limited Edition:
• Limited to just 698 signed and hand-numbered copies
• Personally signed by the author on a unique signature page
• Printed on 60# acid-free paper
• Bound in a fine binding with colored head and tail bands
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Printed and bound with custom marbled endpapers
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Each copy housed in a fine, hand-made slipcase
• Limited ONE TIME printing of this special edition
• Retail price $150

Published as a Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition:
• Limited to just 52 signed and hand-lettered copies
• Personally signed by the author on a unique signature page
• Bound in leather with colored head and tail bands
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Each copy housed in a custom-made TRAYCASE featuring hot foil stamping
• Limited ONE TIME printing of this special edition
• Retail price $500

Called "the weird Thoreau" by The New Yorker, New York Times bestseller Jeff VanderMeer has been a published writer since age 14. His most recent fiction is the critically acclaimed novel BORNE, which has received raves from the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many more. Paramount Pictures has optioned BORNE for film.

VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy was one of the publishing events of 2014, the trilogy made more than thirty year's best lists, including Entertainment Weekly's top 10. Paramount Pictures has made a movie out of the first volume of the Southern Reach, Annihilation, starring Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Natalie Portman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

His nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, and the Atlantic.com. VanderMeer also wrote the world's first fully illustrated creative-writing guide, Wonderbook. With his wife, Ann VanderMeer, he has edited may iconic anthologies. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with two wonderful cats. His hobbies include hiking, reading, and bird watching.

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