# Annihilation

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- Authors: [Jeff VanderMeer](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2024-07-30
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWith a new introduction by award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler. The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that " reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (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. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's 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 delivers-they discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But it's the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.

## Editions

### Annihilation

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5082-404-2
- Pages: 195
- Published: 2024-07-30
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Anihilace](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/cs/anihilace) (cs_CZ)
- [Αφανισμός](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/el/afanismos) (el_GR)
- [Aniquilación](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/es/aniquilacion) (es_ES)
- [Annihilation](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/fr/annihilation) (fr_FR)
- [Anihilacja](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/pl/anihilacja) (pl_PL)
- [Aniquilação](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-vandermeer/pt/aniquilacao) (pt_PT)