Annihilation
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Narrated by:
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Carolyn McCormick
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By:
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Jeff VanderMeer
About this listen
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC
For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.
The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic.
Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown.
Critic reviews
Praise for Annihilation and the Southern Reach Series:
‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King, author of The Shining
‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels’ Guardian
‘A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A psycho-geographical tour de force, channeling Ballard and Lovecraft to instill the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ Financial Times
‘Haunting … Annihilation is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarization’ Daily Mail
‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ Entertainment Weekly
Creepy … an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out’ Washington Post
‘[An] altogether fantastic book … Annihilation is a book meant for gulping – for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover’ NPR
‘A strikingly effective chiller with a classically Lovecraftian premise’ Los Angeles Review of Books
‘It's the novel's unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it’ The Paris Review
‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel’ SFX Magazine
‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller … A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it’ Lauren Beukes, author of Bridge
‘Annihilation feels akin to isolated sci-fi terrors of Alien … teases and terrifies and fascinates’ Kevin Nguyen, author of My Documents
‘Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent’ Warren Ellis
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I have to write specifically on Carolyn McCormick's narration. I couldn't think of a better narrator and now I've heard it, I wouldn't want anyone else narrating it. It simmers with sceptical curiosity that VanderMeer writes into the Biologist.
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