Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer · first published 2017
67% recommend33% neutral
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?
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…Ministry of the Future but it was less fun of a read. Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt, a reasoned look at how social media and devices are negatively impacting society and children. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, a weird near future declinepunk with bioengineering and evil corporations. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, very short book with a glimpse into post colonial colonialism in remote…
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗…almost a decade. Vandemeer really has a way with words but specifically in this novel he manages to describe what I though was indescribable. It was only fair that I tried another one of his trilogies, Borne, The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts. With Borne being pretty normal (for Vandermeer standards) and the other two reading like pretty ramblings at times if you lack the context. I still loved them but…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗> Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, a weird near future declinepunk with bioengineering and evil corporations. I loved Shriek: An Afterword, and have wanted to read more VanderMeer for a while. Did you just coin the…
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗