Fsg Originals Annihilation

Came fast and in time. Love this book. Got the soft cover book its 195pages. Amazing book you should definitely order it.

Very good read...with nice detailings of area x...u can visualise every events...very good n short book...experience the thrill...nice writing after jules verne...

When reading 'Annihilation', if you're looking for immediate gratification, you won't find it. This is the sort of book that requires you to dwell on it long after you put it down, teasing out meaning and theme, nurturing their seeds until they blossom. This is weird fiction at its finest. I don't mean "wow, that's a weird book!", I mean the weird fiction genre (if this is your first exposure to it, look it up!). For such a short read it's dense, packed with philosophy, science, horror, you name it. In fact, it's the perfect length, and now that I am nearing the end of book 2, I feel that sequel's larger size makes it feel a bit bloated and meandering. This is a book that demands to be re-read, once, twice, three times, and now that I'm moved onto the sequels, it feels almost a requirement to go back as many things that were only subtly hinted at in this novel are fully revealed or expanded upon in them. A masterful novel for Vandermeer, haunting and memorable. Highly recommended.

Possibly my favourite book. You must read it!

Background: I write this after reading Annihilation, but before reading the other two books of the trilogy. So I cannot judge its content by the complete story. Maybe I'll amend the text once I've read them all. Three pages into the book it was clear to me that I will like it. It puts the reader right at the beginning of the story, where the action start and does not tell too much about the background - it stays focused on what's happening right now. VanderMeers style, the language of the book, is easy to read but not simple - it has a down-to-earth poetry that works excellent with the narrating character. And it's already then clear that any type of action or thrill happening in this book will not be just for entertainment, but to bring the story forward. He stays true to this until the end. Everything in this book has a mysterious aura - we don't know how the details of what's happening in Area X fit together. But we also start to suspect that something in the real world must be significantly different from our (the readers) reality. This is one thing about this book I absolutely loved: whilst we follow the biologist and see how she tries to make sense of the strangeness of Area X, the reader not only tries to uncover Area X but also the reality from where the biologist is actually coming from. And by and by one gets the feeling as if the biologist would start doubting her past as well. The outside and the inside of Area X seem both to be places that are not too trustworthy. The book is never boring, every sentence is at the right place and one truly feels the disturbances through which the biologist has to go through. Now some people say that the they are disappointed by the ending and that they hope to get more things resolved in the other two books, i.e. that Annihilation seen as a stand-alone novel is not satisfying. I disagree. The beauty of it is that it shows how the biologist (and all the others) try to make sense of the mystery but come to understand, that sense is a very limited, human perspective. There are explanations, but those are not so important here - it is more the feeling, the inner impressions that count. And with that I don't mean necessarily only the feeling of horror, but more that there is something utterly strange going on, something that escapes explanation, maybe even reason - something alien which is most confusing, which is a threat, which is intelligent but which also might not be meaning to do harm. We are left in a state of doubt and uncertainty and that is intended and transported perfectly.