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Zane
Zane
I really want to find more stories that are a mix of mythic story telling and sci-fi body horror. I was able to find some of these things in “Wyrms” by Lindsay Jaymes Wallace and some of the same feelings were conveyed in China Miéville’s “Perdido Street Station”. It is dirtier and much steamier than Card’s work but it carries off the merging of repulsive biological transformations with political commentary beautifully. The remade creatures and cacotopic stain are really excellent at inspiring fear and revulsion in the reader. Right now I’m also reading “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” by Roger Williams. It’s a weird, poetic, and free online novel that follows the transhumanist ideas of the story as they start to fall apart and spin out of control in a really horrifying way. It’s like “Wyrms” went cyberpunk.

One of them, The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata, explores the evolution of humanity through nanotech. It’s not as big or action-packed as Card’s work but similarly explores how the human body and human ideologies can change and mutate. The other book is by Octavia Butler, the renowned author of alien-contact-and-symbiosis stories, and is called Dawn. It’s a difficult read but ultimately Butler provides a way to sit with the discomfort that so few authors have managed to do.
2026-03-24
Owen
Owen
If you enjoyed ‘Wyrms’ by the legendary Orson Scott Card, you might want to explore some more philosophical, biological, sci-fi horror. I find ‘The Godwhale’ by T.J. Bass really conveys the same humanist message as ‘Wyrms’ by getting across strange, evolutionary twists on humanity in a very different way. ‘Blood Music’ by Greg Bear is another very different sort of trip, following bioengineering that manages to be both transcendently wonderful and revoltingly dreadful, in about equal measure. It too explores what it means to be human in a very ‘Wyrms’-like way.

There’s a more recent novel, ‘Children of Time’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky, where evolution is pinged around and there are some intelligent alien creatures. It’s not as body-horror focused as ‘Wyrms’, but it does have the same sort of explorations of what it means to evolve into intelligent, communicating creatures. A lot of arachnid creatures in this novel, which are initially quite disturbing, but the characters are so well-written that you can’t help but start to like them. I’d also recommend ‘Annihilation’ by Jeff VanderMeer, which has a similar foreboding, almost impenetrable atmosphere to ‘Wyrms’. But in ‘Annihilation’ biology is a character in itself, and it’s great to see how different authors take the same concepts and make them strange and unique.
2026-03-24
Ulysses
Ulysses
There is so much of a dark fairy tale mixed with hard science fiction in 'Wyrms' that I will have to give Gene Wolfe’s hard science fiction ‘The Book of the New Sun’ a read. The best comparison for Patience’s journey through a dying world would be Severian’s journey through a dying world. Both characters are laden with biological destiny. A shorter work by Wolfe would not be as visceral but as intellectually rigurous in terms of communication and evolution would be Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ (the basis for the science fiction film ‘Arrival’).

Lastly, I highly recommend the manga series Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki, especially the original work, which is significantly different from the anime adaptation, but excellent in its own right. The body horror and relationships of the hosts and parasites are explored in a number of ways that are both crawling and heart-wrenching, much like ‘Wyrms’.
2026-03-28

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