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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. Marks Lighthouse that inspired one of the settings in the book.Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. In March 2014, as part of a piece on VanderMeer and Annihilation, he visited the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in North Florida." Many of the animals and vegetation that VanderMeer has seen on this hike appear in the novel. In other words, Area X is expanding.Īccording to author Jeff VanderMeer, Area X is, "more or less, a transformed version of the fourteen-mile hike for almost twenty years at the St. When the psychologist is dying, she confesses that the border is moving north. There is also a border that separates Area X from the rest of the world. Some of the places in Area X that are visited in Annihilation included a lighthouse, the marshes, and a base camp. We learn in the book there is a map of Area X although it appears that some places are not documented such as the tower/tunnel that the 12th expedition explored. Following the appearance of the border, a government agency known as the Southern Reach was established to study Area X and its anomalous properties. Any objects, whether vehicles, animals or people, that passed through the border from the outside world inexplicably vanished and could not be recovered. The region became separated from the outside world by an invisible border, and all communication with the inhabitants behind the border was lost.

Several decades before the events of Annihilation, the region that now comprises Area X underwent a transformation, the nature of which has never been fully determined.