Absolution

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation , the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy.

Praise for the Southern Reach Trilogy:

‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating ’ Stephen King

‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels ’ Adam Robert, Books of the Year, Guardian

'Unsettling and unputdownable like a good old-fashioned adventure story, only weirder, beautifully written and not at all old-fashioned' Karen Joy Fowler, Bookpage

‘ This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece … Remarkable … Tense, eerie and unsettling … Genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived’ Guardian

'An ever-creeping map of the apocalypse' Colson Whitehead

'Revelatory, terrifying and marvellous' Helen MacDonald

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

‘A lasting monument to the uncanny … You find yourself afraid to turn the page ’ Guardian

‘VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ Financial Times

'The payoff is absolutely worth the patience' N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times Book Review

‘So disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. Read it ’ Daily Mail

‘ Astonishing, frightening, spectacular … I hope the trilogy will come to be seen not only as the instant sci-fi classic it is, but also as Literature’ New Statesman

‘Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel … A major work’ ***** SFX Magazine

‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. 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

‘ Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent ’ Warren Ellis

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander , the Borne novels, the Southern Reach Series, the Ambergris Trilogy and Veniss Underground . He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.