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Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
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Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Atmospheric, Mind-bending
- Kind of story
- Weird fiction, Literary science fiction, Cosmic horror
- About
- Nature, Isolation, Identity
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 3 of 5. Dark, with real menace
- Romance
- None to speak of
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Complete the set: The Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer
Read in this order. Absolution came out ten years later and is best read last.
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All 4 together: $66.96. Check shipping details.
Prefer one book? Area X collects the first three novels in a single hardcover. See it ($32.49)
Featured in our reading guides: Cosmic Horror Books: Where to Start and What to Read Next and Where to Start with Jeff VanderMeer
Four women cross the border into Area X. Eleven expeditions went in before them. Almost nothing came back right.
Shelf note: Short, eerie, and impossible to shake. Start here before the rest of the trilogy.
A biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist are sent into a stretch of coastline sealed off from the world for decades, where nature has gone strange in ways no one can explain. The biologist narrates, and she isn't telling the others everything, including why her husband came home from the previous expedition a changed man.
The first book of the Southern Reach trilogy and the basis for the Alex Garland film. This 10th anniversary edition includes a new introduction by Karen Joy Fowler. Continue with Authority and Acceptance.
Details
- Author: Jeff VanderMeer
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781250824042
Praise
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I'm loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.
Stephen King
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VanderMeer's dreamy narrative, shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka, is compulsively readable.
Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
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VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension... Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn.
Laura Miller, Salon
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A clear triumph for Vandermeer... a compelling, elegant, and existential story... The solitary voice of its post-humanist narrator is both deeply flawed and deeply trustworthy, a difficult and excellent balance in a novel whose world is built seamlessly and whose symbols are rich and dark.
Lydia Millet, LA Times
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