TY  - BOOK
AU  - VanderMeer,Jeff
TI  - Annihilation
SN  - 9780008139100
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Fourth Estate
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Psychic ability
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Horror tales
N2  - 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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