It is revealed that the biologist’s husband was part of the preceding 11th expedition, from which he had returned unexpectedly, showing up in their kitchen without any recollection of how he got there. The story is told through the biologist’s field journal, written near the end of the expedition.
The group comprise the 12th expedition into Area X, and consists of a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor, none of whom are ever identified by name. 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.Ī team of four women (a fifth having abandoned the team before entering) crosses the border into an uninhabited area known as “Area X”, an unspecified coastal location that has been closed to the public for three decades. 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. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. 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. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. They are the 12th expedition the previous expeditions have been fraught with disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma.Īrea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. The area is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization. The book describes a team of four women (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X. It is the first in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. ★★ The 2014 Shirley Jackson Award For Best Novel ★★Īnnihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer.
★★ The 2014 Nebula Award For Best Novel ★★ ★★ An Amazon Best Book of the Month, February 2014 ★★
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