Vandermeer Jeff - Annihilation A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Special Tenth Anniversary Edition 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 world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into Area X have ended in disaster or death. In Annihilation the first volume of Jeff Vander Meer's Southern Reach Trilogy we join the latest expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist the de facto leader; and the 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 lifeforms that surpass understanding. But it's the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.
Title: Annihilation A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
Author(s): Vandermeer Jeff
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250824042
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/30/2024
Series: The Southern Reach Series
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction