![]() Recommendation: Get the first book, Annihilation, at the library. It all feels truly alien and you get the sense that this is going to be impossible to understand, no matter how many facts you have at your disposal. Some things are normal, some fantastical, and most of it messes with your head. Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Dead Astronauts, Borne, and The Southern Reach Trilogy, the first volume of which, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland starring Natalie Portman. ![]() You don’t get too many straight answers about what Area X is or is even like on the inside. This book is a gentle ride into subtle weirdness. All the previous expeditions into Area X have ended in death, madness, or cancer. ![]() Is it a slow alien invasion, a mass hallucination, or something else?Īnnihilation covers the twelfth expedition into Area X, where the members have given up their names and refer to each other only by profession: the biologist, the linguist, and so on. This happened thirty years ago, and no one on the outside knows why everyone inside Area X died, why there are weird structures inside, or why there’s a border you can’t get through except through one invisible entrance. In the dream-like Annihilation, a section of the Californian coast has turned so weird that it’s now called Area X. ![]()
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