However, these discoveries are also coming at a time during mass ecological change and destruction, driven by humans, and Annihilation provides an interesting alternative commentary on ecological destruction. These discoveries continue to this day in the year 2020 alone, 213 new species were discovered.
He cites that humans have only recently discovered that plants engage in quantum mechanics during photosynthesis (a 2007 discovery published in the journal Nature) or that the sunfish and the albatross have a complex symbiotic relationship (discovered in 2012).
VanderMeer has stated that part of his inspiration for writing Annihilation is the fact that humans live on a planet filled with sophisticated organisms that we still only partially understand. VanderMeer currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He has also collaborated with Ann on numerous anthologies of science fiction and weird fiction. More recently, VanderMeer has published Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts. Annihilation won the Nebula Award, recognizing the year’s best work of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. VanderMeer gained widespread success in 2014 by publishing the Southern Reach Trilogy in quick succession: Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. He then married his wife Ann, a publisher and editor, in 2002. One of his first early successes was his 2001 short-story collection City of Saints and Madmen. He continued to publish short story collections through the 1990s, publishing his first novel, Dradin, In Love, in 1996. His first book was the self-published collection The Book of Frog (1989), which he wrote while he was in college.
He then spent later years in Ithaca, New York, before attending the University of Florida for three years and finishing his college education in 1992 at Clarion University. VanderMeer was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps.
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