Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation is a hallucinatory journey into an ecological mystery that defies conventional storytelling. The first book in the Southern Reach trilogy follows a team of scientists exploring a strange, transformative landscape where the boundaries between human, animal, and environment dissolve. VanderMeer creates a narrative that is part scientific expedition, part psychological thriller, exploring themes of perception, mutation, and the unknowable.

Because sometimes the most profound science fiction reveals how little we understand.

• Author: Jeff VanderMeer

• Publisher: Picador USA

• Format: Paperback