~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel - 2014, and the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel - 2014

Area X (a remote and lush terrain) has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades with nature reclaiming 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 . . . 

"A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us.  A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, Annihilation builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward." -- Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls, Afterland, and Broken Monsters