When is the next Southern Reach book coming out?

Southern Reach books in order

1. 
   Book 1

   Annihilation
   2014
2. 
   Book 2

   Authority
   2014
3. 
   Book 3

   Acceptance
   2014
4. 
   Book 4

   Absolution
   2024
5. Book 5

   Abdication
   2 March 2027

What Southern Reach is about

From the description of Annihilation, the first book.

"Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers―they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding―but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything."-- Provided by Amazon

Southern Reach at a glance

Author

Jeff VanderMeer

Books published

4

Still to come

1

First book published

2014

Next release

2 March 2027

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