You might have seen Annihilation, a 2018 science fiction horror film based loosely on this book.

It is a bizarre book.

The novel follows a team of four women who are sent out into a government-managed, uninhabited location called Area X to study and survey the land and ecosystem. They are the twelfth expedition, with previous expeditions having fallen apart due to disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma. …

… the biologist discovers copious bloodstains and a large hidden pile of hundreds of past expeditions’ journals, some detailing battles against a monstrous presence …

It won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel — but I can’t really recommend it. I won’t go on to the sequels.

Amazon – Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Series, book 1)

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