Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

‘A contemporary masterpiece’ GUARDIAN’Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING’A psycho-geograpical tour de force’ FINANCIAL TIMES

THE BASIS FOR A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

With an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s now-classic Southern Reach series, Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades and nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. Expedition after expedition into Area X has failed to uncover its mysteries and the true nature of its danger to the world.

Now a twelfth expedition makes the attempt, a group of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist and the 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.

A harrowing cosmic mystery at the vanguard of eco-fiction, Annihilation has only become more pertinent to our reality ten years after its first publication.

‘Powerful and echoing’ NEW STATESMAN

‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting’ GUARDIAN

‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER

‘A contemporary masterpiece’
GUARDIAN

‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING

‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’
FINANCIAL TIMES

About the Author: Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

30 Jul 2015
 

Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) by Jeff VanderMeer ISBN 9780008139100