The Story
SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Southern Reach TrilogyĀ begins withĀ Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that āreads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare worldā (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.
InĀ Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeerās 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 deliversāthey discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But itās the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.
Paperback | 224 pages | 11.1" x 11.1" Ā Ā
Description
SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Southern Reach TrilogyĀ begins withĀ Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that āreads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare worldā (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.
InĀ Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeerās 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 deliversāthey discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But itās the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.
Paperback | 224 pages | 11.1" x 11.1" Ā Ā
