Praise for ANNIHILATION and the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY:
Im 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
VanderMeers 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 Lindsays A Voyage To Arcturus Annihilation is 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 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
