The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland.
‘Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore’
In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a strange creature from the fur of a despotic bear.
She names him Borne.
He reminds her of her homeland lost to rising seas, but her lover Wick is intent on rendering him down as raw material for the special drugs he sells. Nothing is quite what it seems, and if Wick is hiding secrets, so too is Rachel – and Borne most of all.
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The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland.
‘Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore’
In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a strange creature from the fur of a despotic bear.
She names him Borne.
He reminds her of her homeland lost to rising seas, but her lover Wick is intent on rendering him down as raw material for the special drugs he sells. Nothing is quite what it seems, and if Wick is hiding secrets, so too is Rachel – and Borne most of all.
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Jeff VanderMeer (f. 1968) er prisvindende bestsellerforfatter og redaktør. Hans bøger er blevet oversat til 37 sprog og belønnet med flere priser. Han skriver desuden for bl.a. Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times og Guardian. Han voksede op på Fijiøerne og bor nu i Tallahassee i Florida.
I begyndelsen af 00’erne var VanderMeer med til at definere den litterære genre new weird med bl.a. fortællingerne fra den fiktive by Ambergris i et alternativt fremtidsunivers, som er beskrevet i bestselleren City of Saints and Madmen (2001). Hans hustru Ann VanderMeer var redaktør af magasinet Weird Tales, og sammen udgav de i 2008 den genredefinerende antologi The New Weird med bidrag fra de fleste af de forfattere, der kom til at tegne genren.
