![]() Here is a landscape in which everything is exactly as it appears-insofar as it is an impenetrable unknown an inexplicability the meaning of which does not matter, does not exist or both a glaring human eye set into the socket of a dolphin’s face as it rises up from the marsh. Indeed, reading Annihilation, the first installment in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy (all to be published in 2014), is often like being dragged through a nightmare. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in northern Florida and a dream he had of descending into a dark tower below ground, following some kind of presence. ![]() ![]() In a comment section discussion on i09, Jeff VanderMeer divulged the inspiration for his novel Annihilation: his hikes through St. ![]()
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