Borne

by Jeff VanderMeer

Book Overview

Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe , PopSugar, Financial Times , Chicago Review of Books , Huffington Post , San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist , Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers Weekly "Am I a person?" Borne asked me. "Yes, you are a person," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In Borne , a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374115249
• ISBN13: 9780374115241
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: MCD
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Loved it, fun read

very cool atmosphere/mechanics—weird place to start probably but got me into Jeff Vandermeer

Great scifi and character study

This book will catch you and win you over immediately! The reader is thrust into a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by a cruel overlord, a biotech disaster. In the midst of the scavenging and tinkering, a creature named enters the picture and takes the protagonists on a journey that tests trust, patience, what is real, and what it means to be a person. Come for the mord proxies, stay for the rich human narratives. If you know, you know.

Breddy Gud

A loving tale of a young woman and a junkie raising a child amidst a city full of bears and astronauts.