Southern Reach Vinyl Audiobook Series by Jeff VanderMeer

This is an abridged limited edition vinyl audiobook preorder. Records will not ship until a future release date, currently scheduled for Spring 2025. Preorder customers will be notified of the release schedule as determined and confirmed.

Unless otherwise specified, all limited edition vinyl audiobooks will include:
—Abridged narration accompanied by never-before-released sound design
—A Certificate of Authenticy signed by Jeff VanderMeer
—Exclusive colored-vinyl variants not available in stores or through online retailers

When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestseller list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.

And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast—before Area X was called Area X—had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. There are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises.

It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time, to be available in 2025 as an official vinyl audiobook series in collaboration between Rare Bird, MCD, and Blackstone, featuring four abridged limited edition vinyl audiobooks—one for each of the four Southern Reach novels, including original narration by Bronson Pinchot, Carolyn McCormick, and Xe Sands with never-before-released sound design and colored vinyl variants.