
Science Fiction Book Club
Wed, Nov 23
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for November's pick, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer with your host, Laura!


Time & Location
Nov 23, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world (Kim Stanley Robinson).
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition 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 weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist.…