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Read Karen Joy Fowler’s new introduction for Annihilation, which still captivates a decade later
Few works change the game as immediately as Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation. The first entry in the author’s Southern Reach trilogy introduced readers to Area X, a strange and unspecified location that defies all attempts by scientists to document it. The novel follows what’s designated as the 12th attempt to explore Area X by four unnamed women, which ends in catastrophe.