Curtin Writers Club

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.” -- Annihilation, page 108 (Warning: some of this review may contain spoilers for the Southern Reach trilogy!) Annihilation follows an all-female expedition into the strange, unexplainable environment on a forgotten part of the American coastline. The team – compromising of a surveyor, an anthropologist, a psychologist (the leader) and a biologist (our protagonist), all of whom have been stripped of their names – try to document and understand the warped landscape. In doing so, they discover impossible, terrible things: animals with human eyes, a haunting cry through the reeds