Prague's Newest SciFi Book Club (English-language)

Welcome Sci-fi Enthusiasts in Prague!

Our next book pick is Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. Thanks to everyone who voted last night.

Summary (from Amazon)
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.

We look forward to your participation as this should be a thought provoking and enlightening discussion.

Reminder, there is a movie adaptation released 2018 is available on Amazon and on Netflix too.

Thank you!
Alejandra y Richard

Structure

• Book Club starts at 7:00pm and runs through 8:30pm.
• Social time from 8:30 - 9:00pm.
• No prep needed, just show up with an open mind and heart.
• We gather up on the balcony level of the bookstore.
• All are welcomed even if you haven't finished the book pick.