5/26/2023 0 Comments Area X by Jeff VanderMeer![]() ![]() ![]() The writing seems biblical, like something out of Revelations. They discover cursive lettering on the interior walls of the tower composed of living fruiting bodies. Team Twelve's first night at base camp is uneventful, except for the discovery of a spiral staircase that goes into the ground, which the biologist refers to as a tower. The biologist's husband died six months after his return from the same inoperable cancer suffered by the other members of his expedition. The same strange fugue is repeated by the other seven members of his expedition. After being missing for a year, he returned to their home one night with little recollection of the trip or of how he had suddenly found himself back across the border. The biologist joins the expedition in part because of her husband's participation in the eleventh expedition. She and her companions-an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist-are all part of the twelfth expedition into Area X. The story of what happens next is recorded by the biologist in her field journal. Four nameless women cross the border into Area X, which has been contained for thirty years by the mysterious Southern Reach agency. ![]()
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