‘Astonishing, frightening, spectacular’ NEW STATESMAN ‘A lasting monument to the uncanny’ GUARDIAN ‘Chilling’ NEW YORK TIMES

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 Roberts, 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” … So disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. Read it’ Daily Mail ‘Astonishing, frightening, spectacular … The imaginative daring and reach with which VanderMeer has invented and executed a concept such as Area X is breathtaking … Powerful and echoing’ 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 … 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

(10th Anniversary Edition): The bestselling second 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. • 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: The Passage; The Windup Girl; Space (Manifold Book 2); Ruins of the Earth; Never; Edge of Darkness; The Long Winter; Jack Reacher. Hugh Howey; Justin Cronin; Paolo Bacigalupi; Christopher Hopper; Ken Follett, Kyla Stone; James Patterson; A G Riddle; Lee Child; China Melville; Stephen King;