‘A contemporary masterpiece’ GUARDIAN
‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING
‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With a new introduction by award-winning author 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.
‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting’ GUARDIAN
‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER
‘The best bits turn your mind inside out’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Imprint: Fourth Estate UK
Publication date: 30/07/2015
Series: Southern Reach v1
