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Annihilation

ISBN: 9781250824042 (paperback)
ISBN: 1250824044 (paperback)
Physical Description: print xiii, 195 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition: 10th anniversary paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : MCD, Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

VanderMeer, Jeff (author.). Fowler, Karen Joy, (writer of introduction).

Summary: 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 VanderMeer'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.