Ventress's body then dissolves into a bright form of light that morphs and distorts itself. She keeps screaming "Annihilation!" Dead Astronauts. The first book of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, it won the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel. The psychologist tells her and the surveyor that the anthropologist was unable to withstand the rigors of the trip and has already gone back across the border.

Summary The biologist recalls a transitional environment she used to visit on her late-night walks when she was still married. His team consisted of eight members, and their approach was somewhat different from that of her team. She takes the time to go over everything she has found on the way back from the lighthouse and also starts to read her husband's journal. It pulls in some blood off a cut on Lena's face before it creates a humanoid body for itself. The same strange fugue is repeated by the other seven members of his expedition. They search for her, but after failing to find her they decide to return to base camp, where they discover the psychologist has taken half the supplies and most of the firearms.

The surveyor will stay behind, wishing that they would simply hike back to the border and await extraction. She undergoes a debriefing about a four-month expedition into an anomalous iridescent electromagnetic field dubbed "the Shimmer", of which she and her husband, Kane, are the only survivors. Annihilation Chapter 4 Summary & Analysis Chapter 4 Summary: “Immersion” The narrator finds the psychologist “propped up against a mound of sand, sheltered by the shadow of the wall, in a kind of broken pile, one leg straight out, the other trapped beneath her” (123). What kind of startling biological transmutations lurk behind this bright and colourful kaleidoscope of horrors? The surveyor doesn't believe the biologist at first, and cautiously maintains faith in the psychologist as the leader of their expedition.
They find the anthropologist dead at the bottom and assume that she was killed after meeting the writer of the phrases on the side of the staircase. The biologist's husband died six months after his return from the same inoperable cancer suffered by the other members of his expedition.Team Twelve's first night at base camp is uneventful, except for the discovery of a spiral staircase that goes into the ground, which the biologist refers to as a tower. One of these phrases is "consolidation of authority" and when she says this the team immediately falls into a trance-like sleep, but the triggers do not work on the biologist and she suspects that the spores she inhaled might have made her immune to the effects of hypnosis.The morning after discovering the tower, the biologist sees that the anthropologist has gone missing.

This detailed literature summary also contains Quotes and a Free Quiz on Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. She decides that she will not return home. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story. The biologist's husband found a boat and tried to cross back along the shoreline.The biologist decides to search for the Crawler in the tunnel. She even finds her husband's field journal. They then saw doubles of the entire team, including themselves, entering the tunnel. It is apparent that she jumped or was pushed from the lighthouse. “Annihilation” really becomes itself once the team crosses that threshold into the woods, a fascinating setting for a sci-fi flick that reveals itself slowly. She fires back, and manages to kill the surveyor, although she is injured herself. She and her companions—an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist—are all part of the twelfth expedition into Area X. The writing seems biblical, like something out of Revelations. The biologist accidentally inhales a burst spore from the plants while taking a closer look, but withholds the incident from the rest of the team. A biologist, unnamed, sets off on an expedition with four other female scientists, each in a different discipline.
While still in the depths of the tower, the biologist tells the surveyor her theory about the psychologist. Order our Annihilation Study Guide. As the biologist goes to sleep she sees a light emanating from the lighthouse.In the morning the biologist prepares to set out to find the lighthouse on her own.