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.

Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades.

Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.

A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014. Dust jacket is wrapped in protective archival grade mylar. First edition, first printing, full number line. Personally signed by the author to the full title page. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING Hardcover: new. Fsg Originals, New York (2014) New in new dust jacket. What do they really know about Area Xand each other?'. But its the surprises that came across the border with them that change everythingthe secrets of the expedition members themselves, including our narrator. What they discover shocks them: first, a massive topographic anomaly that does not appear on any map and second, life forms beyond anything theyre equipped to understand. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens to record all of their observations, scientific and otherwise and, above all, to avoid succumbing to the unpredictable effects of Area X itself. The group is composed of four women, including our narrator, a biologist. Annihilation opens with the twelfth expedition. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization, and the government is involved in sending secret missions to explore Area X. Stated First Edition-French Flaps-' Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades.

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