Or as he said sometimes, the system abhors source, makes its mapping The equation of the Company eluded Chen, perhaps because he had been lost within it once upon a time. He had come to think of himself as a complex equation and a symphony both, and, really, what was the difference? Because the probability was always that he would disintegrate into his constituent parts sooner rather than later. Chen dealt in probabilities on one side of his brain and impossibilities on the other.

He must take his sustenance from the molecules of the air with which he often felt interchangeable,Īnd he compared notes with Moss, because their moves through fluid states were similar, even if his was a kind of fight against evaporation or ejection and hers an overabundance of accretion, a building up. There had been little enough of either lately. Or what had been implanted in him as history. Or this is what he said, “It makes me limber-er,” when mostly it was a link to his history. To be careful-how watchful he must be of his own thick fingers. Meals because he spent prodigious energy keeping his form. N.K.Chen liked to play the piano and to down a hearty meal with a beer. But where Poe kept his most vicious blows relatively oblique, VanderMeer drives them deep-albeit in a corkscrewing way that is not less cruel and exquisite.' 'More than just a horror novel there's something Poe-like in this tightening, increasingly paranoid focus. KAREN JOY FOWLER, BookPage, on Annihilation 'Unsettling and un-put-down-able-like an old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written and not at all old-fashioned.' NISI SHAWL, The Seattle Times, on Annihilation STEPHEN KING, on The Southern Reach Trilogy COLSON WHITEHEAD, author of Nickel Boys 'Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel.' 'For any adventurous fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and/or horror, this book offers not only a rewarding read but, like, a thing to possess.' 'VanderMeer is a master of literary science fiction, and this may be his best book yet.' In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction.' 'A Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. CHELSEA LEU, The New York Times Book Review

' darkly transcendent novel filled with phantasmagoric visions, body horror and tortured beings traversing a blasted desert hellscape.

Dead astronauts a novel