![]() ![]() ![]() Marks Wildlife Refuge in Tallahassee, has come up against a horror even more terrifying than human-eyed alligators or indifferent Lovecraftian behemoths: the Trump administration’s government shutdown. Sadly, like many of the other national parks and wildlife refuges around the country, the place VanderMeer drew his inspiration for his books from, St. For VanderMeer, whose first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy was also adapted into the somehow still under-appreciated 2018 Alex Garland film, conjuring such an uncanny environment was a bit easier because he does actually live in it. ![]() Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer managed to pull off that enthralling incantation better than any other book in recent history, which is no small feat because it made an otherworldly wilderness of shimmering vegetation and mutated nightmare animals feel like a place you’ve actually lived in. The best works of fiction have a way of transporting the reader into the world they create on the page. Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in ‘Annihilation.’ Paramount Pictures ![]()
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