At a certain point, I knew that if I turned the corner, this light I was seeing in front of me would reveal itself to be whatever was writing the words, and at that point, I woke up. This was fairly horrific because it was one of those dreams where you don't know you're dreaming and everything was very tactile. In the middle of the night I had this dream that I was walking down into this tunnel that somehow I also thought was a tower, and spiraling down into it, I saw these words on the wall that were made of some living material, and I noticed after a while that they were getting fresher or brighter, more luminescent.
I was in this state where I had to slow down completely and was actually fairly sick. Can you explain that a little more?īasically, Annihilation kind of came out of intense dental surgery followed by bronchitis. You've said that the idea for the first book came to you in a dream. In advance of the Acceptance release, Jeff talked about his inspiration for the whole series, his love for The Shining, and his upcoming anthology of feminist science fiction. Acceptance, the third and final book in the trilogy ( out today), wraps things up while still leaving readers with a few unsolved mysteries to ponder. The first two books, Annihilation and Authority, left at least three staffers so terrified that they had to sleep with the lights on for several days. One such series is Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, a thoroughly creepy (but delightful!) set of genre-blending novels that explores a mysterious and hostile tract of land known only as Area X. Every once in a while, a book series comes along that's so good you stay up reading it till 4 a.m.
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