My girlfriend really likes the Southern Reach trilogy and is thoroughly enjoying Nicholas Binge’s Ascension right now after I lent it to her, so I’m trying to find more books that fit this mold. Along the lines of “an expedition is sent into a mysterious/dangerous/shifting/alien landscape and has to survive when everything gets extremely fucked up.”
So far I’ve suggested Darwinia and Ringworld, but what are some others?
Not Sci-Fi so maybe not what she’s looking for, but one of my all-time favorite novels is Heart of Darkness. Everything about that expedition is most definitely fucked up, and you can follow it with an Apocalypse Now movie night.
And follow THAT with the documentary, “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” It’s about making the movie, shot by Coppola’s wife.