'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY
- NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) & STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN & OSCAR ISAAC For thirty years Area X has remained mysterious & remote behind its intangible border
- an environmental disaster zone though to all appearances an abundant wilderness The Southern Reach a secretive government agency has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X One has ended in mass suicide another in a hail of gunfire the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown