![]() ![]() He (or it – the question is whether Borne is human) looks like a small, pulsing tube with tendrils, and feathery hair, like a sea anemone. ![]() “Borne” is a little thing when the narrator, “Rachel”, finds him on one of her scavenging trips, looking for biotech in a ruined metropolis. Once the meaning of the one-word title is clear, everything in Borne, Jeff VanderMeer’s latest Science Fiction novel, falls into place. Whereas “born”, without the “e”, is to give birth to. You can say, “the tide bore the seaweed away”, or “the seaweed was borne away by the tide”. “Borne” is the past participle of the verb “ bear”, which means to carry or transport, as in a weight or burden. Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer (Publisher: MCD reprint edition Februpaperback: 368 pages first edition, hardcover, April 25, 2017) ![]()
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