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Borne

Jeff VanderMeer

  • 330 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 14 editions
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1 About this book

In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her lover, Wick, is keeping secrets about working there, so she searches his stuff and finds a journal titled "Mord." What is he hiding?

Good for readers who want: science fiction and fantasy.

  • Biotechnology
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Environmental aspects
  • Dystopian fiction
  • Relationships
  • Fear
  • Genetic engineering

2 About Jeff VanderMeer

Born 1968

Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, before writing his Southern Reach Series. The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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