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Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Acceptance

10th Anniversary Edition

Jeff VanderMeer, Helen Macdonald

Picador · Print & ebook · July 30, 2024

SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With a new introduction by award-winning author Helen Macdonald.

Sci-FiHorrorApocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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Who it’s for
Accessible, collectible, and neatly pitched for a sustained sci-fi return visit.
Genres
Sci-Fi, Horror, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Published
Picador, July 30, 2024

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About this book

SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With a new introduction by award-winning author Helen Macdonald. The New York Times bestselling third installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s wildly popular Southern Reach Trilogy. 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.

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As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it―the Southern Reach―has collapsed in on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they’ve been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril. Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X―what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X―and who may have been corrupted by it? In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy , the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound―or terrifying. Read more

Collector’s Edition

Accessible, collectible, and neatly pitched for a sustained sci-fi return visit.

Come here for

  • Anniversary-edition shelf appeal

Expect

  • Hard-SF and post-apocalyptic signals
  • A straightforward keepsake vibe

Where it sits

Sci-Fi68%
Horror52%
Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic38%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Literary Fiction
Authors
Jeff VanderMeer, Helen Macdonald
Publisher
Picador
Published
July 30, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Literary Fiction