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‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King, author of The Shining

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‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels’ Guardian

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‘A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike’ Sunday Telegraph

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‘A psycho-geographical tour de force, channeling Ballard and Lovecraft to instill the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ Financial Times

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‘Haunting … Annihilation is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarization’ Daily Mail

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‘Shot through with echoes of Lovecraft, Orwell, and Kafka … compulsively readable’ Entertainment Weekly

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Creepy … an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out’ Washington Post

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‘[An] altogether fantastic book … Annihilation is a book meant for gulping – for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover’ NPR

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‘A strikingly effective chiller with a classically Lovecraftian premise’ Los Angeles Review of Books

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‘It's the novel's unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it’ The Paris Review

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‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel’ SFX Magazine

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‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller … A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it’ Lauren Beukes, author of Bridge

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‘Annihilation feels akin to isolated sci-fi terrors of Alien … teases and terrifies and fascinates’ Kevin Nguyen, author of My Documents

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‘Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent’ Warren Ellis

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