Sci-Fi Book Club: Annihilation
When:
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026 7:00p -
9:00p
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026 7:00p -
9:00p
Where:
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
338 Newbury st
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$5.00
Hosted by:
Categories:
Drinks, Food, Good for Groups, Meetup
Event website:
https://annihilation-book-club-qbom4.tripleseattickets.com/registration/select
Join us in discussing Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer at April's Sci-Book club. Through guided discussion and group rotation, our book clubs are formatted with the purpose of meeting new people, so please don't be afraid to come alone. Seating begins at 6 pm for those who wish to grab a seat early. Please make sure to read the whole book beforehand, or don't, but there will be spoilers!
- Your $5 ticket comes with a voucher that is usable in the bookstore or on cafe items on the night of the event.
- Food & Beverage will be available to order during the event. Take a peek at our menu. 👀
- Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).
Area 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; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition 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―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.
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