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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC
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). This 10th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler.
If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel … it might be this awesome.
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.
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“Carolyn McCormick narrates increasingly disturbing events with an unwavering calm that makes the listening experience all the more chilling…McCormick gives a haughty, deep voice to the psychologist, the leader of the group whose intentions may not be what they seem. Her arrogant tone contrasts nicely with the gritty and increasingly anxious tones of the surveyor as the group uncovers deadly secrets better left alone.”
— AudioFile
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“A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward.”
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“A captivating meander…that veers between the beautiful and the terrifying.”
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“[A] deeply imaginative little shocker…full of metaphysical-graffiti imagery and tightly executed reveals that stay with you long afterward.”
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“[A] wonderfully creepy blend of horror and science fiction…Speculative fiction at its most transfixing.”
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“Brilliant…Evocative descriptions…masterful psychological insight, and intellectual observations both profound and disturbing.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“Weaves together an otherworldly tale of the supernatural and the half-human. Delightfully, this page-turner is the first in a trilogy.”
— Booklist (starred review) -
“A dystopian story with literary overtones.”
— Library Journal
Awards
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, February 2014
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A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, February 2014
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014
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A Salon Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014
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Winner of the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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Winner of the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
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A USA Today Pick of Books to Read before You See the Film
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A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Favorite Books of the Decade
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An Elle Magazine Pick of Books to Read before You See the Film
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A Harper’s Bazaar Pick of Books to Read before You See the Film
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A Cosmopolitan Pick of Books to Read before the Film Comes Out
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An iBooks bestseller in Audio
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A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 7 Addictive Series
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A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 11 of the Most Terrifying Books of All Time
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A Paste Magazine Pick of 25 Best Horror Novels of the Decade
Annihilation Listener Reviews
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Thomas, 4/23/2022
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Florence, 5/25/2020
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Patrick Giessman, 2/20/2017
About Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple anthologies. His recent books have made the year’s best books lists of Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Amazon.com. Annihilation won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a Paramount Pictures movie by Alex Garland, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. His other awards include World Fantasy Awards, Locus Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and the British Science Fiction Association award for nonfiction, France’s Le Cafard Cosmique, and Finland’s Tähtifantasia Award. He is the cofounder and assistant director of Shared Worlds, a unique fantasy and science fiction writing camp for teenagers.
About Carolyn McCormick
Carolyn McCormick has appeared in the films A Simple Twist of Fate and Enemy Mine. She has appeared on television as Dr. Olivit in Law & Order for more than a decade and as a guest on The Practice and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her Broadway credits include roles in The Dinner Party and Private Lives. Her audiobook narration has won her three AudioFile Earphones Awards.