Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change as well as urban rewilding.
"I'm loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy
and fascinating." --Stephen King "VanderMeer's dreamy narrative,
shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka, is
compulsively readable." --Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
"Chilling." --Julie Bosman, New York Times "VanderMeer masterfully
conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral
tension . . . Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined
and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It's about science as a
way of not only thinking but feeling, rather than science as a
means of becoming certain about the world. . . . Ingenious."
--Laura Miller, Salon "A clear triumph for Vandermeer . . . a
compelling, elegant, and existential story . . . The solitary voice
of its post-humanist narrator is both deeply flawed and deeply
trustworthy--a difficult and excellent balance in a novel whose
world is built seamlessly and whose symbols are rich and dark."
--Lydia Millet, LA Times "A book about an intelligent, deadly
fungus makes for an enthralling read--trust us." --Tara Wanda
Merrigan, GQ "[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." --Jason Sheehan, NPR Books
"Successfully creepy, an old-style gothic horror novel set in a
not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out."
--Sara Sklaroff, The Washington Post "If J.J. Abrams-style
by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic
have let you down one too many times, then Annihilation will be
more like a revelation. VanderMeer peels back the skin of the
everyday, and gives you a glimpse of a world where science really
is stretching the bounds of our knowledge--sometimes to the point
where we can't ever be the same . . . [Annihilation] will make you
believe in the power of science mysteries again." --Annalee Nevitz,
io9 "Fans of the Lost TV series . . . this one is for you." --Molly
Driscoll, Christian Science Monitor "What frightens you? According
to many psychologists, our most widely shared phobia is the fear of
falling. Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation taps into that
bottomless terror . . . VanderMeer ups the book's eeriness quotient
with the smoothest of skill, the subtlest of grace. His prose makes
the horrific beautiful." --Nisi Shawl, Seattle Times "Much of the
flora and fauna seem familiar, but that's what's so fascinating
about the carnage that VanderMeer sets loose. He has created a
science fiction story about a world much like our own." --John
Domini, Miami Herald "Annihilation feels akin to isolated sci-fi
terrors of Alien . . . teases and terrifies and fascinates."
--Kevin Nguyen, Grantland "The plot moves quickly and has all the
fantastic elements you'd ever want--biological contaminants,
peculiar creatures, mysterious deaths--but it's the novel's
unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it."
--Justin Alvarez, The Paris Review
"It's been a long time since a book filled me with this kind of
palpable, wondrous disquiet, a feeling that started on the first
page and that I'm not sure I've yet shaken." --Matt Bell, author of
In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "A tense
and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition
and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft,
the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic
dread that linger long afterward. I loved it." --Lauren Beukes,
author of The Shining Girls "One of those books where it all comes
together--the story and the prose and the ideas, all braided into a
triple helix that gives rise to something vibrant and alive.
Something that grows, word-by-word, into powerful, tangled vines
that creep into your mind and take hold of it. Annihilation is
brilliant and atmospheric, a novel that has the force of myth."
--Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe
"In much of Jeff VanderMeer's work, a kind of radiance lies beating
beneath the surface of the words. Here in Annihilation, it shines
through with warm blazing incandescence. This is one of a grand
writer's finest and most dazzling books." --Peter Straub, author of
Lost Boy, Lost Girl "A dazzling book . . . haunted and haunting."
--Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners "The great thing about
Annihilation is the strange, elusive, and paranoid world that it
creates . . . I can't wait for the next one." --Brian Evenson,
author of Last Days "This swift surreal suspense novel reads as if
Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had
warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world. The reader will
want to stay trapped with the Biologist to find the answers to Area
X's mysteries." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy
"After their high-risk expedition disintegrates, it's every
scientist for herself in this wonderfully creepy blend of horror
and science fiction . . . Speculative fiction at its most
transfixing." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A gripping fantasy
thriller, Annihilation is thoroughly suspenseful. In a manner
similar to H. G. Wells's in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896),
VanderMeer weaves together an otherworldly tale of the supernatural
and the half-human. Delightfully, this page-turner is the first in
a trilogy." --Heather Paulson, ALA Booklist (starred review)
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