annihilation

Annihilation is a beautiful ordeal

By: Alex Bloom Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation is the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, and it will pull you in immediately with its rich and insidious atmosphere. Lovers of science fiction and horror are sure to find themselves gripped by a compulsion to learn more about the mystery at the center of the story, much like the characters in the book. Readers may find themselves transfixed by Vandermeer’s prose from the very start. One might even call the book abrupt, throwing the reader into the increasingly strange and intriguing world of “Area X” from the top of page one.…

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