I'm not talking about mad scientists or technology gone wrong. I mean books where the scientific method, the pursuit of knowledge, the cold logic of progress is framed as something destructive. Where the problem isn't a bad actor but the very act of analyzing, categorizing, and controlling nature or people.
I think about Frankenstein, where the horror is Victor's refusal to take responsibility for what he's made. Or The Island of Doctor Moreau, where vivisection becomes a tool for domination. More recently, Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy has that feeling of science as a force that consumes rather than illuminates.
What other books treat science not as salvation but as a kind of violence? Fiction where the lab is the haunted house.
by eurz