![]() ![]() Tension between the women increases when the anthropologist goes missing they will discover her dead in the tower, discharging green ash. The biologist incautiously inhales tiny spores which, she will discover later, fill her with brightness, a form of ESP. On its walls are grim biblical admonitions, raised letters made of fungi. Close to base camp is "the tower," a mostly underground structure that acts as tunnel, which they descend. They have no communication devices, but they do have firearms, which they will use some earlier expeditions also ended bloodily. Their leader, the psychologist, has hypnotic powers. ![]() ![]() This latest expedition, the 12th, is all-female, consisting of a psychologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor and a biologist (the narrator). The Southern Reach is the secret government agency that dispatches expeditions across the border to monitor Area X, an ominous coastal no man’s land since an unspecified event 30 years before. This is the first volume of the Southern Reach trilogy from VanderMeer ( Finch, 2009, etc.) subsequent volumes are scheduled for publication in June and September 2014. After their high-risk expedition disintegrates, it’s every scientist for herself in this wonderfully creepy blend of horror and science fiction. ![]()
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