Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an American author who is one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction and fantasy. Born in 1968, he has written numerous novels and is also a significant editor, anthologist, and literary critic. He is a leading voice in the New Weird literary movement. Annihilation follows a team of four women who enter Area X — a mysterious, quarantined zone where nature has gone strange and previous expeditions have ended in disaster or madness. The novel won the Nebula Award and was adapted into a film by Alex Garland starring Natalie Portman. The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) is one of the defining works of twenty-first-century science fiction. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers visionary, unsettling science fiction that rewrites the rules of the genre — fiction as strange and beautiful as the natural world it explores.