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Annihilation a novel6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other three refer to it as a tunnel, but the biologist says she feels compelled to call it a tower. They can’t even agree on what to call it. Their first big surprise is the discovery of a structure not on their maps: a submerged bunker. Along with an anthropologist, a surveyor and a psychologist, she has been sent by the government to study Area X. The action centers on Area X, the site of an earlier catastrophe that, while widely known, remains mysterious, “lingering in many people’s minds like a dark fairy tale, something they did not want to think about too closely.” But our narrator - a biologist who, like everyone else in the book, is never named - must think about it. “Annihilation” is successfully creepy, an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. About 50 pages into Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel, “ Annihilation,” I felt the onset of a panic attack. ![]()
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