In his new sci-fi horror novel, "Absolution," Jeff VanderMeer returns to the world of 2014's award-winning "Annihilation," which launched his Southern Reach Trilogy. Below, the best-selling 'weird ...

Just weeks after it was reported that Annihilation was being removed ... the film takes its inspiration from Jeff VanderMeer's book of the same name, the first of his Southern Reach trilogy.

Annihilation – an adaptation of the first book in Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy – stars Natalie Portman as a biologist who volunteers for a secret mission into alien territory of ...