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Biografisk notat
Jeff VanderMeer is the New York Times bestselling author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels, the Southern Reach Series, the Ambergris Trilogy and Veniss Underground. He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.
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<strong>Praise for <em>Annihilation </em>and the<em> Southern Reach Series: </em></strong>
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<p>‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … <strong>Creepy and fascinating</strong>’ Stephen King, author of <em>The Shining</em></p>
<p>‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … <strong>These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels</strong>’ <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘A teeming science fiction <strong>that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike</strong>’ <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>A</strong> <strong>psycho-geographical tour de force</strong>, channeling Ballard and Lovecraft to instill the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ <em>Financial Times</em></p>
<p>‘Haunting … <em>Annihilation</em> is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarization’ <em>Daily Mail</em></p>
<p>‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … <strong>compulsively readable</strong>’ <em>Entertainment Weekly</em></p>
<p>Creepy … an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. <strong>The best bits turn your mind inside out</strong>’ <em>Washington Post</em></p>
<p>‘[An] altogether fantastic book … <em>Annihilation </em>is <strong>a book meant for gulping</strong> – for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover’<em> NPR</em></p>
<p>‘A <strong>strikingly effective </strong>chiller with a classically Lovecraftian premise’ <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em></p>
<p>‘It's the novel's unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it’ <em>The Paris Review</em></p>
<p>‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is<strong> a startlingly good novel</strong>’ <em>SFX Magazine</em></p>
<p>‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller … <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, author of <em>Bridge</em></p>
<p>‘<em>Annihilation </em>feels akin to isolated sci-fi terrors of <em>Alien</em> … teases and terrifies and fascinates’ Kevin Nguyen, author of <em>My Documents</em></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
ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With a new introduction by award-winning author 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.
‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting’ GUARDIAN
‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER
‘The best bits turn your mind inside out’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
‘A contemporary masterpiece’ GUARDIAN
‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING
‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’ FINANCIAL TIMES
(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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jeff VanderMeer is the New York Times bestselling author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels, the Southern Reach Series, the Ambergris Trilogy and Veniss Underground. He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.