![]() ![]() ![]() Parts of this work as a grim metaphor for our current national climate parts of this, mercifully, do not, though maybe it’d be cooler if they did. Rachel names this creature Borne it is most frequently described as a cross between a squid and a sea anemone, though it quickly grows, and mutates, and sprouts a bunch of eyes, and learns to talk and read, and starts to mimic different forms, different people, different facets of humanity. And the alluringly strange "biotech," both organic and synthetic, that a young scavenger named Rachel plucks from the bear’s fur, and sneaks home, and raises, after a fashion, as her own child. ![]() And the three-stories-tall flying bear that now rules it. Yes, Borne is a book about a half-destroyed future city plunged into anarchy and decay after an unspecified environmental catastrophe. "And it’s like, ‘No, no, Trump is much worse than Mord.’" "People have said, ‘Mord is supposed to be Trump,’" VanderMeer says. Jeff VanderMeer would like you to know that Mord - the vengeful, three-stories-tall flying bear that terrorizes the post-apocalyptic landscape of his new novel, Borne - is not based on any living human in particular. ![]()
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