Annihilation: The thrilling book behind the most anticipated film of 2018

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Annihilation: The thrilling book behind the most anticipated film of 2018
Jeff VanderMeer

’A contemporary masterpiece’ GuardianTHE 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 ISAACFor 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.

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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014

First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014

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Source ISBN: 9780008263348

Ebook Edition © February 2014 ISBN: 9780007550708

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Contents

Cover (#u8fb70a8d-4a4d-5d5c-806a-ae80cb2e726d)

Title Page (#u90227e56-a0e1-5997-b409-eee7590ae107)

Copyright (#u6ddc9aca-e22e-54e7-ab5e-ce5788e57bf8)

Dedication (#ufc456d65-c6dd-5d57-8789-ace54e67fd4f)

01: Initiation (#u551278dc-5dca-5eae-b302-fb539f37bc92)

02: Integration (#udd04888c-6785-52a7-9bfa-27018efceb78)

03: Immolation (#u89de424e-aa66-5f14-ba00-04d14f0fdafa)

04: Immersion (#u9e2fbb06-8e9b-5be9-89ab-67370b541e6d)

05: Dissolution (#ue8fa437e-f15e-5e2e-b934-0d0520f373d3)

Acknowledgments (#u88364911-ecf5-5cba-b9bb-ffdae6020633)

The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 2: Authority (#u77b0296d-ba9c-56d2-856e-55aafa8894d2)

About the Author (#u83002063-45b5-52d8-882b-cadd65a78012)

By the Same Author (#u07d665f3-80ca-5250-8a31-7b216b3af05c)

About the Publisher (#u1820ce6f-f403-5c4a-af67-f5146f052db5)