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<strong>Praise for ANNIHILATION and the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY:</strong>
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<p>‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … <strong>Creepy and fascinating</strong>’ Stephen King</p>
<p>‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … <strong>These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels</strong>’ Adam Robert, Books of the Year, <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece</strong> … 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’ <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘A teeming science fiction <strong>that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike</strong> … <em>Annihilation</em> shows signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience’ <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘A lasting monument to the uncanny … <strong>You find yourself afraid to turn the page</strong>’ <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ <em>Financial Times</em></p>
<p>‘What a haunting book this is, lodging deep in the memory in similar fashion to otherworldly classics such as David Lindsay’s <em>A Voyage To Arcturus</em> … <em>Annihilation</em> is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. <strong>Read it</strong>’ <em>Daily Mail</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>Astonishing, frightening, spectacular</strong> … I hope the trilogy will come to be seen not only as the instant sci-fi classic it is, but also as Literature’ <em>New Statesman</em></p>
<p>‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, <strong>this is a startlingly good novel</strong> … A major work’ ***** <em>SFX Magazine</em></p>
<p>‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. <strong>A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft,</strong> the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it’ Lauren Beukes</p>
<p>‘<strong>Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent</strong>’ Warren Ellis</p>

’A contemporary masterpiece’ GUARDIAN ‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING ‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’ FINANCIAL TIMES THE BASIS FOR A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL With an introduction by 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. 'Powerful and echoing' NEW STATESMAN 'Genuinely potent and dream-haunting' GUARDIAN ‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER
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’A contemporary masterpiece’ GUARDIAN ‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING ‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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(10th Anniversary Edition): The bestselling first science fiction novel in the now-classic Southern Reach Series
(10th Anniversary Edition): The bestselling first science fiction novel in the now-classic Southern Reach Series •The Southern Reach trilogy has already TCMed 20,500 copies TCM across HB, EB and audio in the UK alone. • Exciting acquisition – sci-fi of tremendous quality – will hope to launch an author well-known with the science-fiction community into the bookselling mainstream. • Now being made into a major motion-picture starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Issac, due for release in 2018. •Jeff VanderMeer is hugely well-known within the science fiction community but this trilogy has successfully launched him into the bookselling mainstream. • Library Journal, Kirkus and Amazon all included the Southern Reach Trilogy in their Books of the Year round ups. Annihilation was also a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Competition: Windswept; Apex; The Nexus Trilogy; Europe In Autumn; Trust Exercise; The Winter World; Edge of Darkness; Ruins of the Earth. Margaret Atwood; China Mieville; Alex Garland; Adam Rakunas; Ramez Naam; Susan Choi; A G Riddle; James Patterson; Kyla Stone; Guillermo Del Toro; Christopher Hopper
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ISBN
9780008139100
Publisert
2015-07-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Fourth Estate Ltd
Vekt
200 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

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Jeff VanderMeer’s New York Times–bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His other books include Hummingbird Salamander, Dead Astronauts, Borne (in development as a TV series at AMC), and The Strange Bird. VanderMeer has lectured at MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Columbia. Most recently, he gave the John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His Florida reporting has appeared in Current Affairs, TIME, the Nation, and Esquire. VanderMeer lives in Tallahassee.