![]() ![]() 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. ![]() The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. 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. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with this 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). Print Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy #1) ![]()
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