{"product_id":"9781250824066","title":"Acceptance : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAcceptance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebestselling final installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s wildy popular \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they’ve been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, \u003ci\u003eAcceptance\u003c\/i\u003e tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X: What initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A satisfying conclusion to this captivating trilogy” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This trilogy is that rare thing--a set in which the whole is as great as the parts.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I'm loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.” —\u003ci\u003eStephen King on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chilling.” —\u003ci\u003eJulie Bosman, New York Times on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension . . . \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It's about science as a way of not only thinking but feeling, rather than science as a means of becoming certain about the world. . . . Ingenious.” —\u003ci\u003eLaura Miller, Salon on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A clear triumph for Vandermeer . . . a compelling, elegant, and existential story . . . .The solitary voice of its post-humanist narrator is both deeply flawed and deeply trustworthy--a difficult and excellent balance in a novel whose world is built seamlessly and whose symbols are rich and dark.” —\u003ci\u003eLydia Millet, LA Times on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book about an intelligent, deadly fungus makes for an enthralling read--trust us.” —\u003ci\u003eTara Wanda Merrigan, GQ on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] strange, clever, off-putting, maddening, claustrophobic, occasionally beautiful, occasionally disturbing and altogether fantastic book . . . \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003eis a book meant for gulping--for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back cover.” —\u003ci\u003eJason Sheehan, NPR Books on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Successfully creepy, an old-style gothic horror novel set in a not-too-distant future. The best bits turn your mind inside out.” —\u003ci\u003eSara Sklaroff, The Washington Post on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If J.J. Abrams-style by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic have let you down one too many times, then \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e 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 . . . [\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again.” —\u003ci\u003eAnnalee Nevitz, io9 on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fans of the \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e TV series . . . this one is for you.” —\u003ci\u003eMolly Driscoll, Christian Science Monitor on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What frightens you? According to many psychologists, our most widely shared phobia is the fear of falling. Jeff VanderMeer's novel \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e taps into that bottomless terror . . . VanderMeer ups the book's eeriness quotient with the smoothest of skill, the subtlest of grace. His prose makes the horrific beautiful.” —\u003ci\u003eNisi Shawl, Seattle Times on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn Domini, Miami Herald on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e feels akin to isolated sci-fi terrors of\u003ci\u003e Alien\u003c\/i\u003e . . . teases and terrifies and fascinates.” —\u003ci\u003eKevin Nguyen, Grantland on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The plot moves quickly and has all the fantastic elements you'd ever want--biological contaminants, peculiar creatures, mysterious deaths--but it's the novel's unbearable dread that lingers with me days after I've finished it.” —\u003ci\u003eJustin Alvarez, The Paris Review on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jeff VanderMeer ventures on to strange ground in this enigmatic story.” —\u003ci\u003eAlex Good, The Toronto Star on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[VanderMeer's] writing is courageously imaginative, fiercely unformulaic, and utterly immersive. You don't read Jeff VanderMeer, you experience him.” —\u003ci\u003ePaul Goat Allen, The Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Book Blog on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first book in what may be a modern classic of post-apocalyptic sci-fi . . . .\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e's story struck me hard and pulled me in fast. I haven't had a reading experience this creepy, intense, and edge-of-your-seat since H.P. Lovecraft's \u003ci\u003eAt the Mountains of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003ePaul Schwartz, UR Chicago on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e is smart, tense and utterly engrossing.” —\u003ci\u003eMike Reynolds, Bookgasm on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Master of the literary headtrip Jeff VanderMeeer's \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e is simply unlike anything you've read before. It gnaws away at your nerves with a slow-building sense of dread and impending madness.” —\u003ci\u003eMarc Savlov, Kirkus Reviews on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“VanderMeer both defies and challenges genre boundaries, forcing readers to forget about traditional tropes and clichés and simply enjoy the storytelling.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn DeNardo, Kirkus \"Best Bets for Speculative Fiction Books, February 2014 on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gripping fantasy thriller, \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003eis thoroughly suspenseful.” —\u003ci\u003eHeather Paulson, Booklist on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After their high-risk expedition disintegrates, it's every scientist for herself in this wonderfully creepy blend of horror and science fiction. . . . Speculative fiction at its most transfixing.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus (Starred Review) on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gripping fantasy thriller, \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e is thoroughly suspenseful. In a manner similar to H. G. Wells' in \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau \u003c\/i\u003e(1896), VanderMeer weaves together an otherworldly tale of the supernatural and the half-human\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eDelightfully, this page-turner is the first in a trilogy.” —\u003ci\u003eHeather Paulson, ALA Booklist (Starred Review) on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant . . . ever-more-terrifying, yet ever-more-transcendent . . . .Using evocative descriptions of the biologist's outer and inner worlds, masterful psychological insight, and intellectual observations both profound and disturbing--calling Lovecraft to mind and Borges--VanderMeer unfolds a tale as satisfying as it is richly imagined.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003ePeter Straub, author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of those books where it all comes together--the story and the prose and the ideas, all braided into a triple helix that gives rise to something vibrant and alive. Something that grows, word-by-word, into powerful, tangled vines that creep into your mind and take hold of it. \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliant and atmospheric, a novel that has the force of myth.” —\u003ci\u003eCharles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling book . . . haunted and haunting.” —\u003ci\u003eKelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eLauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The great thing about \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e is the strange, elusive, and paranoid world that it creates. . . .I can't wait for the next one.” —\u003ci\u003eBrian Evenson, author of Last Days on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It's been a long time since a book filled me with this kind of palpable, wondrous disquiet, a feeling that started on the first page and that I'm not sure I've yet shaken.” —\u003ci\u003eMatt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This swift surreal suspense novel reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world. The reader will want to stay trapped with the Biologist to find the answers to Area X's mysteries.” —\u003ci\u003eKim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unsettling and un-put-downable like an old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written and not at all old-fashioned.” —\u003ci\u003eKaren Joy Fowler, BookPage on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The prose is phenomenal . . . it toyed with my imagination in ways that haven't happened since \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eMadison Vain, Entertainment Weekly on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Its deepest terror lies in its exploration of . . . the human heart, and the terror that can grow from the ways in which we are untrue to each other, and to ourselves.” —\u003ci\u003eJared Bland, The Globe and Mail on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“VanderMeer's masterful command of the plot, his cast of characters, and the increasingly desperate situation will leave the reader desperate for the final volume in the trilogy.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What frightens you? According to many psychologists, our most widely shared phobia is the fear of falling. Jeff VanderMeer's \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003etaps into that bottomless terror . . . VanderMeer ups the book's eeriness quotient with the smoothest of skill, the subtlest of grace. His prose makes the horrific beautiful.” —\u003ci\u003eNisi Shawl, The Seattle Times on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There's something Poe-like in this tightening, increasingly paranoid focus . . . the payoff is absolutely worth the patience.” —\u003ci\u003eN.K. Jemisin, The New York Times on The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Library Journal Best Books of the Year (2014), Long-listed Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year (2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250824066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40769630732494,"sku":"9781250824066","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250824066","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}