But where Poe kept his most vicious blows relatively oblique, VanderMeer drives them deep-albeit in a corkscrewing way that is not less cruel and exquisite. “More than just a horror novel there’s something Poe-like in this tightening, increasingly paranoid focus. KAREN JOY FOWLER, BookPage, on Annihilation “Unsettling and un-put-down-able-like an old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written and not at all old-fashioned.” NISI SHAWL, The Seattle Times, on Annihilation STEPHEN KING, on The Southern Reach Trilogy COLSON WHITEHEAD, author of Nickel Boys There was freedom in that liberated the mind to roam quadrants farther than the body. Better to think of yourself as dead already. Neither could ever become part of what they journeyed through. “Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it’s a thorough marvel.” Dead astronauts were no different than living astronauts. "For any adventurous fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and/or horror, this book offers not only a rewarding read but, like, a thing to possess." "VanderMeer is a master of literary science fiction, and this may be his best book yet." In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction." "A Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. CHELSEA LEU, The New York Times Book Review
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability." darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth-all the Earths. A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways.
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