03552cam a2200709 i 4500 603674762 TxAuBib 20220901120000.0 131022s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013038709 9780374104092 Paperback 0374104093 Paperback 9780374537159 0374537151 99964821553 99963978002 (OCoLC)846545382 TxAuBib rda VanderMeer, Jeff, author. Annihilation / Jeff VanderMeer. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2014] ©2014. 195 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Southern reach ; 1 Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes 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. "Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third. Area X [is] a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. This is the twelfth expedition. Their 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 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." -- from the publisher. 20220915. Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2014. Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, 2014. NPR Best Book of the Year, 2014. Discoveries in geography Fiction. Discoveries in geography Fiction. Scientists Fiction. Women scientists Fiction. Science-fiction. Découvertes géographiques Romans, nouvelles, etc. Adventure Fiction. Suspense fiction. Paranormal fiction. Discoveries in geography. Science fiction. Scientists. Women scientists. Amerikanisches Englisch. Exploration Fiction. Science fiction. Fantasy fiction. Mystery fiction. Adventure stories. Thrillers (Fiction.) Adventure stories. Action and adventure fiction. Fiction. Paranormal fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Southern reach ; 1. TXDCK