Annihilation Movie Tie-in - Softcover

Eleven secret government expeditions—and few have returned unscathed in the first book of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Natalie Portman.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization, and the government is involved in sending secret missions to explore Area X. 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, all had died of an aggressive cancer.

Annihilation opens with the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record their observations and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, but what they discover shocks them. However, 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. 

JEFF VANDERMEER is an award-winning novelist and editor, most recently the author of the critically acclaimed Borne and the New York Times–bestselling Southern Reach trilogy. VanderMeer is also the co-editor, with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, of The Big Book of Science Fiction. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Web: JeffVanderMeer.com

Twitter: @JeffVanderMeer