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Annihilation
Nebula Award · 2014 · WinnerShirley Jackson · 2014 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebula Award (Best Novel) | 2014 | Winner | |
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2014 | Winner | “Jeff VanderMeer's Area X novel won for its dreamlike dread, its refusal of explanation, and the way it rendered the uncanny through the voice of an unreliable narrator who cannot fully see what she experiences.” |
About This Book
The first book of the Southern Reach trilogy, this claustrophobic novel follows a biologist on a twelfth expedition into the mysterious Area X, a section of wilderness cut off from civilization. It won the Nebula Award and was adapted into a 2018 film.
About the Author
Jeff VanderMeer is an American author of speculative fiction and New Weird literature, best known for the Southern Reach trilogy. He won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for Annihilation (2014), the first volume of the trilogy, which also won the Nebula Award and was adapted into a 2018 film directed by Alex Garland. Born in 1968 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and raised partly in the Fiji Islands, VanderMeer grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where he continues to live. Read more →
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