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Annihilation

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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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‘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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Weight 0.2 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

195

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K