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Annihilation : Southern Reach  Cover Image Book Book

Annihilation : Southern Reach / Jeff VanderMeer.

VanderMeer, Jeff, (author.).

Summary:

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third 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 weeks, all had died of cancer. The 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, 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—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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374104092
  • ISBN: 0374104093
  • ISBN: 9780374537159
  • ISBN: 0374537151
  • Physical Description: 195 pages ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2014]

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2014.
Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, 2014.
NPR Best Book of the Year, 2014.
Subject: Discoveries in geography > Fiction.
Scientists > Fiction.
Women scientists > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Paranormal fiction.
Science fiction.

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24510. ‡aAnnihilation : ‡bSouthern Reach / ‡cJeff VanderMeer.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, ‡c[2014]
300 . ‡a195 pages ; ‡c19 cm
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337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
4901 . ‡aSouthern Reach ; ‡vbk. 1
520 . ‡aArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third 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 weeks, all had died of cancer. The 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, 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—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.
586 . ‡aNebula Award for Best Novel, 2014.
586 . ‡aShirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, 2014.
586 . ‡aNPR Best Book of the Year, 2014.
650 0. ‡aDiscoveries in geography ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aScientists ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aWomen scientists ‡vFiction.
655 7. ‡aFantasy fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aAction and adventure fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aThrillers (Fiction) ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aParanormal fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aScience fiction. ‡2lcgft
8001 . ‡aSouthern Reach ; ‡vbk. 1
8301 . ‡aVanderMeer, Jeff. ‡tSouthern Reach trilogy ; ‡vbk. 1.
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