{"product_id":"9780008139100","title":"Annihilation : Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby VanderMeer, Jeff \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 30\/07\/2015 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of The Southern Reach Trilogy series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003c\/p\u003e130 x 197 x 16mm | 202g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A contemporary masterpiece’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A psycho-geograpical tour de force’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  With a new introduction by award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘The best bits turn your mind inside out’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491369517262,"sku":"9780008139100","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9780008139100.jpg?v=1776347344","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9780008139100","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}