Annihilation

Resource Information

The work Annihilation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Annihilation

Statement of responsibility

Jeff VanderMeer

Creator

• VanderMeer, Jeff

Author

• VanderMeer, Jeff

Subject

• Explorers -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• Scientists -- Fiction
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Action and adventure fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Fiction
• Discoveries in geography -- Fiction

Genre

• Science fiction
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Fiction
• Action and adventure fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Southern Reach trilogy

Series volume

1