Praise for 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 Robert, Books of the Year, 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 . Annihilation is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. Read it' Daily Mail 'Astonishing, frightening, spectacular . I hope the trilogy will come to be seen not only as the instant sci-fi classic it is, but also as Literature' 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. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel 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.