TY  - GEN
AU  - VanderMeer, Jeff
TI  - Annihilation
SN  - 9780008263348
U1  - 813.6 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - Psychic ability
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Women scientists
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2014.
Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, 2014.
NPR Best Book of the Year, 2014
N2  - Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third. Area X [is] a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. 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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