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Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
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Language | English |
Series | Southern Reach Trilogy |
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Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | February 2014 |
Publication place | United States |
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Pages | 208 |
ISBN | 978-0-374-10409-2 |
Followed by | Authority |
Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first entry in VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy and follows a team of four women (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X, which is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization; they believe they are the 12th expedition, with all previous expeditions falling apart due to disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma.[1]
Annihilation won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel[2] and the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.[3] A film loosely based on the novel was released by Paramount Pictures in 2018.[4]