Acceptance: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
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—LAURA MILLER, Salon
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“If J. J. Abrams–style by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic have let you down one too many times, then Annihilation will be more like a revelation. VanderMeer peels back the skin of the everyday, and gives you a glimpse of a world where science really is stretching the bounds of our knowledge—sometimes to the point where we can’t ever be the same … [Annihilation] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again.”
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—JASON SHEEHAN, NPR
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—MOLLY DRISCOLL, The Christian Science Monitor
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“Much of the flora and fauna seem familiar, but that’s what’s so fascinating about the carnage that VanderMeer sets loose. He has created a science fiction story about a world much like our own.”
—JOHN DOMINI, The Miami Herald
“Annihilation feels akin to [the] isolated sci-fi terrors of Alien … [It] teases and terrifies and fascinates.”
—KEVIN NGUYEN, Grantland
“In much of Jeff VanderMeer’s work, a kind of radiance lies beating beneath the surface of the words. Here in Annihilation, it shines through with warm blazing incandescence. This is one of a grand writer’s finest and most dazzling books.”
—PETER STRAUB, author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl
“Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent.”
—WARREN ELLIS
“A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward. I loved it.”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
VanderMeer, Jeff.
Acceptance / Jeff VanderMeer. — First edition.
pages cm. — (Southern Reach Trilogy; 3)
ISBN 978-0-374-10411-5 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-0-374-71079-8 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3572.A4284 A82 2014
813'.54—dc23
2014016962
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