Jeff VanderMeer

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, …

Annientamento è un romanzo fantascientifico dello scrittore statunitense Jeff VanderMeer. Pubblicato in lingua originale nel 2014, la versione italiana è del 2015 ad opera della casa editrice Einaudi. Si tratta del primo capitolo della Trilogia dell'Area X, che comprende anche i romanzi intitolati Autorità e …

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following …