这部单卷的精装版收录了《遗落的南境三部曲》的三卷小说，这三本小说一开始分别于2014年2月、5月和9月出版。

《湮灭》（Annihilation）是杰夫•范德米尔的《遗落的南境三部曲》的**卷，《当权者》（Authority）是第二卷，《接纳》（Acceptance）是第三卷。

《遗落的南境1：湮灭》

四位女科学家受派遣前往边界外勘察，这是一片荒芜多年、被称为X区域的神秘地带。她们已经是政府派遣出的第十二支勘探队。以往勘探队均以失败告终。第十一支勘探队成员在消失一年后，离奇出现在家中，不久纷纷死于癌症。

仅到达X区域一天后，生物学家在“地下塔”被神秘孢子感染。第二天，心理学家指使人类学家执行危险任务，人类学家被神秘巨型生物杀死，心理学家失踪，而仅剩的勘测员又与生物学家发生分歧。

生物学家孤身前往勘探X区域的标志性建筑灯塔，并在那里发现了神秘的灯塔管理员的照片，及以往所有勘探队的日记，包括她的丈夫、第十一期勘探队成员的日记。在由灯塔返回时，为自保，生物学家杀死最后一名队友勘测员，并只身前往“地下塔”探秘。

《遗落的南境2:当权者》

假如X区域是一个小圈，是秘密的核心所在，那《当权者》就是画了一个更大的圈，圈进更多的人、更多的秘密，X区域的秘密不但没有破解，疑惑反而更多了起来。

在《湮灭》中，无论生物学家还是心理学家，都是X区域秘密的探究者，而在《当权者》中，她们本身却都成了被探究的秘密 ，而探究她们的人正是一位出自“间谍王朝”的“总管”，他是这部小说的新主角。这位被突然抛入南境局的“总管”，和我们一样深感困惑与绝望。面对从X区域返回的人类学家、勘测员与生物学家，他凭“直觉”重点审讯生物学家，秘密虽未解开，他却对她产生了特别的情感。

无论形式还是手法，《当权者》都与《湮灭》没有半点相似之处，作品本身和所描述的故事一样令人先感惊异，继而惊叹。

《遗落的南境3:接纳》

在灯塔管理员索尔、身为南境局局长的“心理学家”，以及生物学家和“幽灵鸟”的自述中，纷繁的线索就像断开的电路一样，终于连接在一起，真相这盏灯亮了！

“被遗忘的海岸”、净化一切的X区域、会“吃人”的边界、神秘的动植物以及科学降神会，当每一样秘密都展现在眼前时，心中疑惑却并未尽释。就像其中的人物反抗无效一样，我们也只能错愕地接纳残酷真相。

A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014.

Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.
Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died 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 months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their 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 and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to 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.
After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach-the secret agency that monitors these expeditions-is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka "Control," is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves-and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that.
It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown-navigating new terrain and new challenges-the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying.