After the End Book Club - Annihilation
Thursday, August 4, 2022, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Multipurpose Room C
After the End book club reads books that feature post-apocalypic, dystopian or alternate history themes. We meet the 1st Thursday of the month at the library (with a virtual Zoom option) and welcome all new members!
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper." - T. S. Eliot
The world has ended? What's not to love? We know it's not really over. There is still a story to tell. Sometimes it's a story about how the end came; sometimes it's a story of those who survive. If you enjoy these explorations, you will enjoy AFTER THE END, book discussion group dedicated to Post-Apocalyptic fiction and the readers who love it. Questions? Contact Gretchen Elm at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 706-613-3650 ext. 324 for more information.
This month we'll be reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
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About the book from Goodreads: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third 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 weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—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.
