AREA X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; AcceptanceA single volume hardcover edition that brings together the first three volumes of the Southern Reach Series. Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third. In Annihilation, 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