Annihilation

I was like, yeah.

I'll give it a shot after I finish Annihilation.

Fucking love Annihilation, bro.

I have it in there.

I

have started reading Annihilation.

Good fucking book so far.

So fucking good.

Our goal here is to explore how genre fiction digests those overwhelming global realities and makes them emotionally accessible.

We are looking under the hood at the literary engine, and the first prime example of this is Jeff VanderMeer's incredibly popular Southern Reach series, starting with the book Annihilation.

Benjamin notes that these books have helped spawn entirely new genre descriptors, things like eco-horror and cli-fi or climate fiction.

The series documents a series of scientific investigations into a fictional region known as Area X.

Yeah.

And the first time I remember noticing that horror was reading Annihilation.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Though it, you know, but it's interesting 'cause I feel like when, when horror really intersects with, like, either fantasy or science fiction, it can be a little vague where it should go.

Like, I think about Annihilation.

Mm-hmm.

That to me is a book that it's like there's a piece of me that, that does wanna say, yeah, the sci-fi is actually really what's determining it.

Like, I think that it's sci-fi readers who are reading Annihilation, and horror readers second, not the other way around, you know? So I, I don't know.

I'm still inclined to give it to the aesthetic genre first, and then-

Mm

You're still in it? It's not, I mean, I think, did you mention, Pike, that you'd heard it wasn't the best one? What? The second one in the

Annihilation series.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Apparently the second one is bad and the third one is good again, but I haven't read them.