Annihilation
’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC
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 the twelfth expedition into the unknown.
Praise for ANNIHILATION and the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY: -
”'I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating” - Stephen King
”'Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels” - Adam Robert, Books of the Year, Guardian
”'This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece … Remarkable … Tense, eerie and unsettling … VanderMeer writes much better prose than Poe ever did … This is genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived” - Guardian
”'A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike … Annihilation shows signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience” - Sunday Telegraph
”'A lasting monument to the uncanny … You find yourself afraid to turn the page” - Guardian
”'VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease” - Financial Times
”'What a haunting book this is, lodging deep in the memory in similar fashion to otherworldly classics such as David Lindsay’s A Voyage To Arcturus … Annihilation is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. Read it” - Daily Mail
”'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular … I hope the trilogy will come to be seen not only as the instant sci-fi classic it is, but also as Literature” - New Statesman
”'Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel … A major work” - ***** SFX Magazine
”'A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it” - Lauren Beukes
”'Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent” - Warren Ellis