β Tanya Milne
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 127 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Borne
β Scribed by Jeff Vandermeer
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;MCD/Farrar
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 621 KB
- Edition
- First paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, 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 destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Companyβa biotech firm now derelictβand punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech.
One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lumpβplant or animal?βbut exudes a...
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