Area X, Jeff VanderMeer
Area X, Jeff VanderMeer
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Area X
The Southern Reach Trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Carolyn McCormick, Bronson Pinchot, Xe Sands

Unabridged: 26 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/18/2014

Synopsis

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a series, it might be this awesome.This collection includes all three novels in the epic Southern Reach trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Praised for its evocative prose, chilling psychological twists, and intriguing story arc, this series has amassed high critical and popular acclaim, with book one landing on the New York Times bestsellers list.Dive into the mysteries of Area X, a remote and lush terrain that has inexplicably sequestered itself from civilization. Twelve expeditions have gone in, and not a single member of any of them has remained unchanged by the experience—for better or worse.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple anthologies. His recent books have made the year’s best books lists of Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Amazon.com.

About Carolyn McCormick

Carolyn McCormick has appeared in the films A Simple Twist of Fate and Enemy Mine. She has appeared on television as Dr. Olivit in Law & Order for more than a decade and as a guest on The Practice and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her Broadway credits include roles in The Dinner Party and Private Lives. Her audiobook narration has won her three AudioFile Earphones Awards.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack on January 17, 2015

This book/series of books is extremely frustrating and unsatisfying. It's like listening to a person describe a very detailed but also very boring dream, with the logic of dreams that, if you are not the dreamer, appear only as gaps or blanks to the listener. If you have heard good but vague praise......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on November 10, 2014

Literary in ambition and new weird in execution, the writing and ideas pull you along but ultimately lead you nowhere.......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on February 25, 2018

3 and a half, rounded up. This was an intense book... Jeff VanderMeer's books are always difficult to describe and review. I love where that man's brain goes: his weird and atmospheric stories have a way of sticking to my mind in the most haunting way. "The Southern Reach" trilogy had been on my shel......more

Goodreads review by Elle_bow on October 16, 2024

I didn’t really know what to expect from this book, I thought it knew what it was going to be about since I saw the movie but the book is completely different (which isn’t a bad thing). I was so invested in this book, even though it is very slow and confusing in some places I was so eager to read mo......more

Goodreads review by Darlington30 on January 21, 2015

Stunning and mesmerizing. A masterpiece of the weird fiction genre. Many readers will surely be drawn to the unique ecological setting and horror. But what I found most gripping were the linguistical and relative meanderings about the nature of meaning and knowing - - about how ever much we can know......more

Quotes

“I’m loving the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Recommended by an indie bookseller. Creepy and fascinating.” Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“VanderMeer’s dreamy narrative, shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka, is compulsively readable.” Entertainment Weekly

“Chilling.” New York Times

“Successfully creepy, an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out.” Washington Post

“A must-read for sci-fi fans looking for something wholly original.” Mental Floss

“Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent.” Warren Ellis, author of Crooked Little Vein

Awards

  • Library Journal Best Book
  • Entertainment Weekly Best Book
  • Kirkus Reviews Pick
  • Mental Floss Choice
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