About the Author

JEFF VANDERMEER is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’sbest anthologies. He writes non-fiction for The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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PRAISE FOR THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY

“Chilling.”

—JULIE BOSMAN, The 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

“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

“An enthralling read—trust us.”

—TARA WANDA MERRIGAN, GQ

“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 NEWITZ, io9

“[I] finished the entire thing in less than a day, knowing it finally for the strange, clever … altogether fantastic book that it is.”

—JASON SHEEHAN, NPR

“Its deepest terror lies in its exploration of … the human heart, and the terror that can grow from the ways in which we are untrue to each other, and to ourselves.”

—JARED BLAND, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Fans of the Lost TV series … this one is for you.”

—MOLLY DRISCOLL, The 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, The 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, The Miami Herald

“Annihilation feels akin to [the] isolated sci-fi terrors of Alien … [It] teases and terrifies and fascinates.”

—KEVIN NGUYEN, Grantland

“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.”