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Annihilation: Southern Reach Book 1 Plato Empire of Painis the storyThe first book in the acclaimed Southern Reach series. For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. Now four women embark on