{"product_id":"9780008139100","title":"Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer","description":"\u003cp\u003e`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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeff VanderMeer","offers":[{"title":"208 pages \/ 30\/07\/2015 \/ Science fiction","offer_id":57299603521911,"sku":"9780008139100","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008139100.jpg?v=1783948153","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008139100","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}