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 anotioner, 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.
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