Jeff VanderMeer – författare

"Det var länge sedan jag blev så uppslukad och tagen av en berättelse som jag blev av Avgrund. Definitivt en av årets bästa." - C.R.M NilssonDen hyllade och prisbelönade eko-thrillern Avgrund är ett fenomen. Nu på svenska för första gången, i översättning av Jan Risheden, och snart som storfilmen Annihilation med Natalie Portman och Oscar Isaacs i rollerna, regisserad av Alex Garland (Ex Machina). Område X har varit avskuret från resten av kontinenten i årtionden. Naturen har återerövrat de sista resterna av mänsklig civilisation. Den första expeditionen återvände med rapporter om ett vackert Edenlikt landskap. Den andra expeditionen slutade med massjälvmord. Den tredje expeditionen gick under i ett regn av kulor när dess deltagare vände sig mot varandra. Deltagarna i den elfte expeditionen återvände som skuggor av sina forna jag. Inom veckor var alla döda i cancer. I Avgrund följer vi den tolfte expeditionen. Gruppen består av fyra kvinnor: en antropolog, en lantmätare, en psykolog - den faktiska ledaren - och vår berättare, en biolog. Deras uppdrag är att kartlägga landskapet, att anteckna observationer av sin omgivning, av varandra, och över allt annat, att undvika att själva bli smittade av Område X. Expeditionen anländer redo för det oväntade, och Område X lever upp till sitt rykte. Deltagarna upptäcker en enorm topografisk anomali och livsformer bortom all förståelse. Det är dock hemligheterna som de fört med sig över gränsen som till slut ska förändra allt. Vinnare av Nebulapriset 2014

»Du kommer på dig själv med att bli rädd för att vända blad« The Guardian

»Inte bara spännande utan även drabbande.« The New York Times

»Avgrund lockar in dig med ett intressant mysterium och fyller dig sedan med en otrolig, delikat fruktan.« Io9

»De bästa delarna vänder dig ut och in.« The Washington Post

»En bok att sluka, att dyka in i och att inte komma upp till ytan förrän efter sista sidan.« NPR

A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the first three volumes of the Southern Reach Series.Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.In Annihilation, Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers-they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding-but it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything. After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach-the secret agency that monitors these expeditions-is in disarray. In Authority, John Rodriguez, aka "Control," is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves-and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. And the consequences will spread much further than that. It is winter in Area X in Acceptance. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown-navigating new terrain and new challenges-the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying.

From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.

From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . .By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.

From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Shriek: An Afterword.An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris—previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed City of Saints and Madmen—Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by the ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice’s brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies, who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city.After reading this introduction to the Family Shriek—part academic treatise, part tell-all biography—you’ll never look at history in quite the same way.