{"product_id":"2940169604023","title":"Annihilation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel ¿ it might be this awesome.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the twelfth expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheir group is made up of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist¿the de facto leader¿and a biologist, who is our narrator. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers¿they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding¿but it¿s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114648289520,"sku":"2940169604023","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169604023_p0.jpg?v=1763688602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169604023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}