{"product_id":"9780008139100","title":"Annihilation","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: VanderMeer, Jeff\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ec 2010 to c 2020\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 20 July 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 16 | 148g\u003cp\u003e’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VanderMeer, Jeff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42536593424568,"sku":"9780008139100","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780008139100.jpg?v=1734745021","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780008139100","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}