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  "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.",
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