Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

by Jeff VanderMeer

That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

The biologist is always thinking from a perspective that exposes the foundational assumptions of the majority as being flawed. Those things that in your daily life you don’t even notice are lies. Some are benign lies, but others are leading to actual crises in the world. I feel like the difference between the biologist and, say, Lowry, from the later books, is that Lowry