Acceptance

Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac. The final volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach Trilogy – Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance. An ordinary day in Area X, an extraordinary day - the day of your death – and there you are, propped against a mound of sand, half sheltered by a crumbling wall. The warm sun against your face and the dizzying view above of the lighthouse looming down through its own shadow. The Southern Reach has been lost. With no choice but to form an alliance, one last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. As they press deeper into the unknown, the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound - or terrifying. As the brightness consumes all that lies in its path, those who remain must choose whether to resist or accept a fate nearly beyond comprehension. Described as ‘a contemporary masterpiece’ by the Guardian, the Southern Reach Trilogy is a stunning work of contemporary science fiction that challenges the boundary between known and the unknown, human and alien, terror and limitless beauty. Read X Marks the Plot, our exclusive interview with Jeff VanderMeer, on the Waterstones Blog