Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
3.70
· 71 ratings · 210 pages · Published: 04 Feb 2014
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.
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