If being sealed in Gyre’s suit with only Em’s voice for company gripped you, you’ll love how the unnamed Biologist ventures into Area X with just a small team and her own field journal. The descent into the “Tower” (that’s really a tunnel) echoes Gyre’s crawl into the unknown—biohazards, hallucination-tinged perception, and a handler figure (the Psychologist) whose methods and secrets twist trust the way Em’s lies do. Annihilation delivers that same suffocating intimacy, where every step deeper tightens the psychological vise.

You were hooked by Gyre’s medicated, doubt-laced inner monologue and the way Em’s manipulations warp reality. In Foe, Junior narrates as a stranger arrives at his isolated farmhouse to conscript him for a space mission—and to install a replacement in his life. The tightening paranoia, shifting truths, and ethical violations feel like Em dosing Gyre and rewriting the rules mid-descent. It’s that same unnerving question: when someone else controls the terms, can you trust your own mind?

If Em’s lying, life-or-death ‘support’ and Gyre’s own deceptions fascinated you, The Echo Wife gives a similarly thorny dance of consent, control, and culpability. Dr. Evelyn Caldwell confronts her husband’s illegal clone of her—then must cover up a killing and partner with that clone to survive the fallout. The scientific violations and moral compromises mirror Em’s invasive surgeries on Gyre and the way both women cross lines to get what they want.

If the slow tightening of fear as Gyre crawls deeper—strange biology, unreliable perceptions, and horrible histories—kept you turning pages, Mexican Gothic offers a similarly patient, ominous build. Noemí’s investigation of High Place unfurls secrets layer by layer, with fungal horror and family manipulation escalating like Gyre’s discoveries of prior expeditions and Em’s hidden motives. It’s that same measured dread that detonates by the end.

If you loved living inside Gyre’s head—sealed in her gear, parsing threats with limited data—Murderbot’s first-person feed delivers that intimate, suit-bound immediacy. On a hazardous survey mission with corporate strings attached, the SecUnit filters danger, hacked systems, and messy human clients through its own prickly voice. It’s a different flavor, but that same immersive, single-POV perspective on a risky job where the truth is never fully on the comms.