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Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) (The Southern Reach Series, 1) - Softcover

Book 1 of 5: Southern Reach

VanderMeer, Jeff

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9781250824042: Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) (The Southern Reach Series, 1)
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ISBN 10: 1250824044 ISBN 13: 9781250824042
Publisher: Picador, 2024

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
With a new introduction by award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler.

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 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.

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About the Author

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander; the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts); and the Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. VanderMeer has spoken at MIT, Columbia, Yale, and Vanderbilt, and he gave the 2024 John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His environmental nonfiction has appeared in Time, The Nation, and Esquire, among other publications. VanderMeer founded the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group nonprofit in 2023.

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Publisher
Picador
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1250824044
ISBN 13 
9781250824042
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224
Rating
  • 3.80 out of 5 stars
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