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Annihilation

de Jeff VanderMeer

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Sèrie: The Southern Reach (1)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel ... it might be this awesome.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. 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 of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition.

Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologistâ??the de facto leaderâ??and a biologist, who is our narrator. 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 deliversâ??they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understandingâ??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.

Cover artwork (c)Paramount Pictures. All Rights Re… (més)

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It's rare when the simple act of reading a book makes you feel like you're losing your own grip on reality and causing you to question everything, both in and out of the story.

I will live the rest of my life wishing I could read this again for the first time. ( )
  sublunarie | May 13, 2023 |
This book is weird, at times I think too abstract for me. I found it really difficult to get into and a times a slog to read (actually it's not good commute reading, better to read in a quiet place where you can focus properly!).

Another one of those while I like the premise a lot but in execution I didn't find it a compelling read.

I'm intrigued by where the story is going in the next 2 books.. but I think I'm more likely to read a synopsis than the next two novels! ( )
  ImagineAlice | May 8, 2023 |
Creepy, but well-written. Reminded me of the "Lost" TV series. ( )
  ReomaMcGinnis | May 3, 2023 |
Creepy, but well-written. Reminded me of the "Lost" TV series. ( )
  RomyMc | Apr 16, 2023 |
Not my usual, type of book but I saw that a film of it was available on Netflix so thought I would read the book first. It was an interesting read which I did not fully understand but perhaps once I have watched the film it may become clearer ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
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afegit per timetunnel | editaDeutschlandfunk Kultur, Elena Gorgis (Oct 24, 2014)
 
...strange, clever, off-putting, maddening, claustrophobic, occasionally beautiful, occasionally disturbing and altogether fantastic...Annihilation is a book meant for gulping — for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover.
afegit per zhejw | editaNPR, Jason Sheehan (Feb 7, 2014)
 
"Annihilation," in which the educated and analytical similarly meets up with the inhuman, is a clear triumph for Vandermeer, who after numerous works of genre fiction has suddenly transcended genre with a compelling, elegant and existential story of far broader appeal.
afegit per zhejw | editaLos Angeles Times, Lydia Millet (Jan 20, 2014)
 
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Jeff VanderMeer—autor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Aula, NikoTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Blomeyer, MarionAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Corral, RodrigoDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kellner, MichaelTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
McCormick, CarolynNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Nyquist, EricAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Strick, CharlotteDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Amazon's Best Books of the Month (February 2014)
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Nebula (Novel, 2014)
Shirley Jackson Award (2014.1 | Novel, 2014)
Reading List Award shortlist (Science Fiction, 2015)
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The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats. Beyond the marsh flats and the natural canals lies the ocean and, a little farther down the coast, a derelict lighthouse. All of this part of the country had been abandoned for decades, for reasons that are not easy to relate. Our expedition was the first to enter Area X for more than two years, and much of our predecessors’ equipment had rusted, their tents and sheds little more than husks. Looking out over that untroubled landscape, I do not believe any of us could yet see the threat.
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"Annihilation!" she shrieked at me, flailing in confusion.  "Annihilation! Annihilation!" The word seemed more meaningless the more she repeated it, like the cry of a bird with a broken wing.
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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel ... it might be this awesome.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. 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 of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition.

Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologistâ??the de facto leaderâ??and a biologist, who is our narrator. 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 deliversâ??they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understandingâ??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.

Cover artwork (c)Paramount Pictures. All Rights Re

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