![]() ![]() No mutilated, burned bodies dangling from broken streetlamps. I found him only because, beacon-like, he strobed emerald green across the purple every half minute or so.Ĭome close, I could smell the brine, rising in a wave, and for a moment there was no ruined city around me, no search for food and water, no roving gangs and escaped, altered creatures of unknown origin or intent. ![]() ![]() I couldn’t know that he would change everything.īorne was not much to look at that first time: dark purple and about the size of my fist, clinging to Mord’s fur like a half-closed stranded sea anemone. ![]() I didn’t know what Borne would mean to us. I found Borne on a sunny gunmetal day when the giant bear Mord came roving near our home. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida. VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor, and the author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy- the first volume of which, Annihilation, is being made into a movie to be released by Paramount in 2017-and the coeditor with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, of The Big Book of Science Fiction. The following is from Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, Borne. ![]()
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