Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)

by Jeff VanderMeer

’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian

THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC

For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.

The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic.

Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown.

Reviewed by HekArtemis on

4 of 5 stars

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Feeding a surprising Lovecraftian/cosmic-horror craving. Not quite as Lovecraftian as Lovecraft of course, not quite as dread filled, but still has several moments that had me holding my breath in anticipatory dread. And I am definitely intrigued. Onwards to the next instalments.

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