Description: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the areamost of which ended in the death of every team memberthe twelfth expedition is ready to go. The group is made up of an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist, and a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, collect specimens, record all their observations, and, above all, avoid being contaminated. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X deliversthey discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms beyond understandingbut 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.
Brief description:
Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels, the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach series, the Ambergris trilogy, and Veniss Underground. He has written about issues relating to climate change and the environment for Time, Esquire, and The Nation. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Review Quotes:
"[A] wonderfully creepy blend of horror and science fiction...Speculative fiction at its most transfixing."
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"