★★★☆☆ (3/5) Recommended if you like: Slow-burn sci-fi, body transformation narratives, moral ambiguity. Skip if you need: Fast-paced action, clear heroes and villains, happy endings.

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This is where the body horror begins. The soldiers develop webbed fingers and toes (to aid in swimming across Titan’s methane lakes). Their eyes turn black to protect against cosmic radiation. They consume live animals to extract nutrients. The soldiers stop sleeping in beds and begin hanging upside down to simulate reduced gravity.

Set in the year 2048, Earth has become nearly uninhabitable due to famine, war, and resource depletion. Professor Martin Collingwood leads a NASA-backed program to "force" human evolution, selecting Lieutenant Rick Janssen and other elite soldiers to undergo radical physical transformations.