Annihilation

#1 Southern Reach

Jeff Vandermeer

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Farrar Straus Giroux
04 February 2014

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Fantasy; Science; Biology; Future Society; Thriller Horror; Nebula Award

Series: Southern Reach

"A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC

The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that ""reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world"" (Kim Stanley Robinson).

Area X 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; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition 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 weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The 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, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, 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."

By: Jeff Vandermeer
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 01
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780374104092
ISBN 10: 0374104093
Series: Southern Reach
Pages: 195
Publication Date: 04 February 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year's-best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

Reviews for Annihilation (#1 Southern Reach)

A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward. I loved it. --Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls