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JEFF VANDERMEER - GEBRAUCHT ANNIHILATION THE SO...

'A contemporary masterpiece' GUARDIAN 'Creepy and fascinating' STEPHEN KING 'A
psycho-geograpical tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NEW
YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new introduction by award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler. In
Annihilation   the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's now-classic Southern Reach series  Area X
has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades and nature has reclaimed the last
vestiges of human civilisation. Expedition after expedition into Area X has failed to uncover
its mysteries and the true nature of its danger to the world. Now a twelfth expedition makes
the attempt  a group of four women: an anthropologist  a surveyor  a psychologist and the
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. A
harrowing cosmic mystery at the vanguard of eco-fiction  Annihilation has only become more
pertinent to our reality ten years after its first publication. 'Genuinely potent and
dream-haunting' GUARDIAN 'Arresting  unsettling  and unforgettable' NEW YORKER 'The best bits
turn your mind inside out' WASHINGTON POST 'Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft  Orwell  and
Kafka ... compulsively readable' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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