SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Can anyone suggest books that are similar to this? Nature-horror themed, like how some animals and insects can be a threat to humanity. I've been trying to look for similar books but I haven't found any, recommendations would be very much appreciated.

I believe Kathleen Goonan has some nano-weaponized insects in her books.

Anything about people shrinking would be nice too guys, thanks for your suggestions Trike.

Frank Herbert's novel THE GREEN BRAIN is about insects evolving a collective intelligence.

PHASE IV is an awesome movie directed by legendary graphic designer Saul Bass (his only feature length film). Again, ants develop collective intelligence. It has amazing macro cinematography by Ken Middleham showing the ants being all problem-solving and clever. There was a novelization - long out of print, I'm sure - written by, of all people, sf New Waver Barry M. Malzberg.

Please forgive the self-promotion, but I have a short book, ANTITHESIS, which deals with exactly this. It involves ants and specifically covers the mechanism that triggers the development of their collective intelligence - all based on real science.

Not horror, but it does challenge our position in nature. If you're interested, I can send you a free PDF version.

Check out Anhiliation, by Jeff Vandermeer. I would consider that nature-horror in a sense. Couldn't put it down either. The whole feeling of the book is so...unnerving.

Pat, I would love to check out ANTITHESIS. Please let me know where I can find it.

The Last Gasp by Hoyle.

Oh yeah: Fragment by Warren Fahy. I saw there's a sequel, too.

I can think of a couple of oldies by John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids (carnivorous plants run amok when humans are incapacitated) and Web (novella; spiders in an eerie ant-like colony on a remote island).

Since you bring up shrinking people I'd be remiss in not mentioning The Incredible Shrinking Man. I've not read it myself but what else I've read of Matheson is very good.

Will wrote: "Anything about people shrinking would be nice too guys, thanks for your suggestions Trike."

Shrinking people was all the rage back in the 60s and 70s.

There were a series of books called... it'll come to me in a minute. But I believe The Micronauts comics by Marvel have been collected into graphic novel form.

Oh, duh, it was called The Micronauts. I recall enjoying the first one, but the series tapered off after there. Essentially the story is about cloning people down to insect size so that food lasts longer, and their adventures.