Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor, and the author most recently of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.
"Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map
of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into
the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel."
--Colson Whitehead "VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to
nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but
to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a
hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that
VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed
thing, one fixed destiny, but as either peaceful or catastrophic,
by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates--for these
are our children, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape
or mess we have created." --Wai Chee Dimock, The New York Times
Book Review "The conceptual elements in VanderMeer's fiction are so
striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his
characters' lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer's
trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne]
insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know
that you, a mere person, might be crushed by indifferent forces at
a moment's notice, then quickly forgotten." --Laura Miller, The New
Yorker "Borne, the latest novel from New Weird author Jeff
VanderMeer, is a story of loving self-sacrifice, hallucinatory
beauty, and poisonous trust . . . Heady delights only add to the
engrossing richness of Borne. The main attraction is a tale of
mothers and monsters--and of how we make each other with our love."
--Nisi Shawl, The Washington Post "Borne, Jeff VanderMeer's lyrical
and harrowing new novel, may be the most beautifully written, and
believable, post-apocalyptic tale in recent memory . . .
[VanderMeer] outdoes himself in this visionary novel shimmering
with as much inventiveness and deliriously unlikely, post-human
optimism as Borne himself." --Elizabeth Hand, Los Angeles Times
"Borne, the latest from sci-fi savant Jeff VanderMeer, begins
innocently enough: Girl meets strange plantlike creature. But if
you haven't read his haunting Southern Reach trilogy, prepare
yourself--this is Walden gone horribly wrong." --Esquire
"VanderMeer's apocalyptic vision, with its mix of absurdity,
horror, and grace, can't be mistaken for that of anyone else.
Inventive, engrossing, and heartbreaking, Borne finds [VanderMeer]
at a high point of creative accomplishment." --Michael Berry, San
Francisco Chronicle
"Beautiful . . . VanderMeer's fiction is not preachy by any means.
Rather, it probes the mysterious of different lifeforms and
highlights our human ignorance at the life around us." --Lincoln
Michel, Vice "VanderMeer's follow-up to his acclaimed Southern
Reach trilogy is fantastical and strange, but with a sincere heart
beating at its core. " --Jaime Green, Google Play "Borne maintains
a wry self-awareness that's rare in dystopias, making it the most
necessary VanderMeer book yet." --Charley Locke, Wired "With Borne
VanderMeer presents a parable about modern life, in these shaky
days of roughshod industrialism, civilizational collapse, and
looming planetary catastrophe . . . Think of Borne as a retelling
of Steven Spielberg's E.T, or the character arc of Data on Star
Trek: The Next Generation. It's the story of humanity making
contact with something strange, alien, artificial, but yet
possessed of a personality, a sense of humor, a drive to find love
and friendship and community, to be a part of something--and to be
respected--respected the way immigrants, refugees, the oppressed
the world over have always wished to be respected." --Brian Ted
Jones, The Rumpus "A triumph of science fiction . . . Borne will
dazzle you with its wonders and horrors, revealing itself as
another piece of the puzzle, a reflection on the terror and beauty
of being alive." --Matt E. Lewis, Electric Literature "Just as
VanderMeer subverted your expectations for each sequel to
Annihilation, with Borne he's written something completely
different and unpredictable -- not just in terms of the story, but
also with regards to language, structure, and point of view."
--Adam Morgan, Chicago Review of Books "VanderMeer offers another
conceptual cautionary tale of corporate greed, scientific hubris,
and precarious survival . . . VanderMeer marries bildungsroman,
domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one
compelling, intelligent story centered not around the gee-whiz
novelty of a flying bear but around complex, vulnerable characters
struggling with what it means to be a person. VanderMeer's talent
for immersive world-building and stunning imagery is on display in
this weird, challenging, but always heartfelt novel." --Krista
Hutley, Booklist (starred review) "Supremely literary, distinctly
unusual . . . VanderMeer's deep talent for worldbuilding takes him
into realms more reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's The Road than of
the Shire. Superb." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "VanderMeer,
author of the acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy, has made a career
out of eluding genre classifications, and with Borne he essentially
invents a new one . . . Reading like a dispatch from a world lodged
somewhere between science fiction, myth, and a video game, the
textures of Borne shift as freely as those of the titular whatsit.
What's even more remarkable is the reservoirs of feeling that
VanderMeer is able to tap into . . . resulting in something more
than just weird fiction: weird literature." --Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
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