Watkins Media Limited Symbiote (4, 2025) | Michael Nayak

As World War III rages on, a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base in Antarctica in search of help. They have abandoned their base and in their truck is a horrifying sight – a mysteriously murdered teammate. Within seventy-two hours, thirteen of the South Pole Station crew lie dead in the snow. In their search for safety, the Chinese scientists have inadvertently brought more than just a body. An extremophile parasite is spreading by touch. Learning from all of them. Evolving. It triggers violent tendencies in the winter crew and, more insidiously, shows the beginnings of a strange symbiotic telepathy. With rescue impossible for months, exhaustion and fear cause the crew to turn on one another. But the remaining survivors must find a way to band together to stop the spread – they cannot let anyone infected make it to the summer season, or the symbiotes will be taken back home... and set loose onto civilisation.