‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer

The Annihilation author talks about jumping back into the Southern Reach series 10 years later and whether this is truly the end of the story.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

After a decade away, Jeff VanderMeer is heading back into Area X. 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. Starting with Annihilation and culminating with

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