In Area X, they will all find out what it truly means to face the unknown. A tunnel plunging into the ground isn’t on any map. A moaning in the distance at dusk appears to have no natural cause. The old abandoned lighthouse on the coast is more than it seems. But they soon find out that the information given to them about Area X is incomplete or inaccurate, and that they are being manipulated by forces both strange and all too familiar. She is accompanied by a psychologist, anthropologist, and surveyor, their stated mission to chart the wilderness, take samples, and expand the Southern Reach’s understanding of Area X. A reticent, solitary woman, the biologist brings her own personal secrets with her. ‘Annihilation’ tells the story of the twelfth expedition through the narration of a nameless biologist attached to the mission.

What is happening in Area X? What is the true nature of the invisible border that surrounds it? In this work, several different nuclear materials originating from the nuclear fuel cycle or round-robin exercises are analyzed by PAS. Now, as Area X seems to be changing and perhaps expanding, the next expedition will attempt to succeed where all others have failed. Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (PAS) is a non-destructive technique used mostly in material science for studying open spaces/free volumes in materials. Others have reported nothing out of the ordinary. Some expeditions have suffered terrible consequences.

For thirty years, too, the secret agency known as the Southern Reach has monitored Area X and sent in expeditions to try to discover the truth. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like 'Annihilation', the first in an extraordinary trilogy.įor thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious, remote, and concealed by the government as an environmental disaster zone even though it is to all appearances pristine wilderness.

Annihilation a novel