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FINALIST LOCUS.
Prima parte din trilogia SOUTHERN REACH.
Aria X: un misterios teritoriu abandonat, aflat în carantină. Până acum, unsprezece echipe de exploratori au dispărut în misiune. A douăsprezecea este formată din patru femei: un psiholog, un antropolog, un topograf și un biolog – cea prin ochii căreia ni se înfățișează Aria X, cu toate ororile și splendorile ei, sfidând granițele raționalului.
După ce și-a lăsat în urmă numele și identitatea, biologul se confruntă cu forme de viață care depășesc orice imaginație, dar și cu povestea paralelă a soțului ei, fost explorator al Ariei X. Secretele pe care fiecare le-a adus cu sine sunt la fel de periculoase ca lumea pe care o explorează...
„Protagoniști decupați parcă din cărțile lui Jules Verne sau ale lui H.G. Wells explorează o insulă misterioasă, dintr-o lume de coșmar kafkian.“
Kim Stanley Robinson
„Un thriller psihologic despre o expediție periculoasă și despre stranietatea pe care o ascundem adânc în noi. Cu influențe din Kubrik și Lovecraft, romanul își ține cititorii într-un suspans insuportabil până la ultima pagină, și chiar și după.“
Lauren Beukes
„Dacă ți-a plăcut romanul Picnic la marginea drumului, de Arkadi & Boris Strugațki, trebuie să încerci cartea asta.“
Marian Coman, redactor-șef Armada
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What a book! This was out of my comfort zone and honestly I really loved it. The aduiobook brought so much life to the biologist and I really loved her character. The back and forth of her past and then her present was done well. I felt like I was really learning about her as a person and seeing her as human. The end was amazing. It honestly made me sad, but in the way that I felt incredibly connected to the character and was sad the story was over. It was just beautiful. I will be reading/listening to the second book!
This book is crazy and you never know what it might throw at you, but maybe you don’t need to know everything… or anything.
Annihilation is the first book in a science fiction trilogy known as The Southern Reach. I started reading this back in March before I saw the film adaption on Netflix. After watching the film, from the 50% of the book I had read, I was heavily disappointed, and I immediately picked this back up to finish the original story. For years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its almost impassable border. Cordoned off by the government under the guise of an environmental disaster, a government agency, unknown to the public named the Southern Reach, has funded eleven expeditions into the Area. One ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, and the eleventh expedition all ended in a fatal cancer epidemic. Now, four women make up the twelfth expedition, heading into Area X in order to discover more about it. Follow the story of the Biologist in this first novel. When I first saw this book in Tesco, I grabbed it purely because it was less than 200 pages and seemed to be a quick read. I didn't really care if I enjoyed it at all, I just wanted something I could breeze through for my reading challenge of which I am painfully behind. It wasn't long into the book that I found myself hooked in, devouring pages with deadly swiftness, lost to the world of Area X and wanting to know more and more as each page turned.I'm not sure what it is about this book that I utterly adored. I think it might be due to the fact I am studying to become a marine biologist, so seeing the story in front of me, portrayed by a Biologist's point of view, and coming across scientific really piqued my interest more than usual for books like this. VanderMeer has somehow created an entire novel based around horror and strange, aesthetically horrifying creatures, that has left me speechless. Upon picking it up to finish last night, I devoured through this book, turning pages so quickly I was giving myself paper cuts. Still, I eventually had to call it a night and sat down just now to breeze through the remaining 20 pages and I adored it. I've just finished it and I would very gladly sit and breeze through the 195 pages of this book once more. I adore it. The Southern Reach is a trilogy I will definitely be buying in full shortly onwards, and this is a book I will be reading again, hopefully, not too soon in the future. I definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys science-fiction, horror and anything of the sort. This is a new genre of science fiction, in my opinion at least, and it should be read by anyone who adores the genre.