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‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer
Things get weird.
In 2014, the author released all three parts of the Southern Reach trilogy over the span of just a few months, and the series became a breakout hit; the first was even adapted into a Hollywood film from director Alex Garland. The trilogy solidified VanderMeer’s particular style of surreal sci-fi and environmental activism, and in the intervening years, he’s explored similar themes in novels like Borne, Dead Astronauts, and Hummingbird Salamander. It’s split into three parts and largely follows two characters from the original trilogy: Old Jim, a resident of the abandoned village in Area X, and Lowry, sole survivor of the first expedition into the phenomenon.
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