Extinction

Decades have passed since Area X was cut off from the rest of the world. Nature had erased the last traces of human civilization. The first expedition team reported that the place had a paradise-like nature; the second expedition resulted in mass suicide; and the third with a hail of bullets from the guns the team members pointed at each other. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within a few weeks they were all dead of cancer. In Annihilation, the first book of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition team. The group consisted of four women: an anthropologist, a cartographer, the lead psychologist, and the biologist who is our narrator. Their mission was to map the terrain, observe their surroundings and each other and record their observations, and most importantly, avoid Area X affecting them. They got there expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivered… “I loved the Southern Reach Trilogy. “Scary and fascinating.” -Stephen King- “For the first time in a long time, a book has filled me with such a surprisingly tangible uneasiness. "This feeling started on the first page of the book and I still haven't been able to shake it off." -Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Pages: 232

Size: 11x20

Media Type: Paperback