I'd also been kind of seeding the idea in my brain that I want to write about Florida and the wilderness of Florida, and I had been thinking about the Gulf oil spill quite a bit, which, at the time it happened, was this relentless spiral in all of our minds because it seemed like it would never end and it was going to destroy all the places that we knew and loved. I tend to have fairly lucid dreams every once in a while. How do you remember your dreams in such detail? I found that the words on the wall I used unchanged in the novel, which was kind of strange too. I woke up and immediately wrote down the dream and the words on the wall, fell back asleep, and then in the morning, I woke up and started writing the story with the biologist character in my head. I really think it's my writer's brain that kind of woke me up at that point and airlifted me out, because I knew that if I saw - I mean in addition to it being fairly terrifying - I wasn't going to write the story.
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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