In his role as director, Control frequently encounters friction with the existing staff to various degrees: in particular, the assistant director Grace Stevenson, who seems to have an emotional attachment to his predecessor. Control reports to a handler called "The Voice" at Central over phone calls and e-mail. He comes from a family of operatives: his mother and grandfather are prominent and influential members. The public is led to believe that the region suffered an environmental disaster and is isolated for safety in truth, the region has been taken over by an unknown force changing the environs and ecosystem behind a largely impenetrable "border." He is a secret operative assigned by the mysterious Central group which oversees the Southern Reach. John "Control" Rodriguez takes over as the new director of the Southern Reach, a government agency formed to manage a coastal region named Area X. The second book takes place in the human inhabited areas unlike the first book, Annihilation, which was set within Area X. The agency is responsible for the investigation into the unexplained phenomena of Area X. Īuthority revolves around the operatives of the Southern Reach agency. In an interview, VanderMeer stated that, "if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions." It was released in May 2014.
It is the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. Get the trilogy that inspired Annihilation, the most anticipated motion picture of 2018, and uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Area X.Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens to record all of their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. Summary: 'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON For years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.
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