Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) (MP3 CD)

Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) By Jeff VanderMeer, Carolyn McCormick (Read by) Cover Image

Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) (MP3 CD)

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I read a review of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation that called the novel “ineffable.” That for me is the perfect word to frame that text, not because it’s necessarily a perfect novel, but because it is so sure in its storytelling: it’s a book that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to be. VanderMeer crafts the kind of slippery, out-of-the-blue wonderment that hooked me on sci fi in the first place.

— Ali

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel ... it might be this awesome.

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; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died 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 months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition.

Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist--the de facto leader--and a biologist, who is our narrator. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to 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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Product Details ISBN: 9781482956740
ISBN-10: 1482956748
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date: February 4th, 2014
Language: English
Series: Southern Reach Trilogy