‘A contemporary masterpiece’GUARDIAN ‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING ‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’FINANCIAL TIMES ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 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

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-30
Mått:128 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt:202 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Southern Reach Trilogy
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:9780008139100
Miljömärkning:Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

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Jeff VanderMeer is the New York Times bestselling author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels, the Southern Reach Series, the Ambergris Trilogy and Veniss Underground. He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.

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Praise for Annihilation and the Southern Reach Series: ‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King, author of The Shining‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels’ Guardian‘A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike’ Sunday Telegraph‘A psycho-geographical tour de force, channeling Ballard and Lovecraft to instill the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ Financial Times‘Haunting … Annihilation is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarization’ Daily Mail‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ Entertainment WeeklyCreepy … an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out’ Washington Post‘[An] altogether fantastic book … Annihilation is a book meant for gulping – for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover’ NPR‘A strikingly effective chiller with a classically Lovecraftian premise’ Los Angeles Review of Books‘It's the novel's unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it’ The Paris Review‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel’ SFX Magazine‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller … 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, author of Bridge‘Annihilation feels akin to isolated sci-fi terrors of Alien … teases and terrifies and fascinates’ Kevin Nguyen, author of My Documents‘Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent’ Warren Ellis