Jeff VanderMeer · loose sequence
Borne books in order
A loosely connected sequence of speculative works about biotechnology, ecological collapse, and the ruined worlds shaped by the Company.
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- 1 Borne
Book 1 · novel · 2017
A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy "Am I a person?" Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. "Yes, you are a person," Rachel tells him. "But like a person,…
- 2 The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
Book 2 · novella · 2017
The Strange Bird--from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer--expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel" of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is…
- 3 Dead Astronauts
Book 3 · novel · 2019
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a…
