With The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel Borne. Never to understand, never to welcome home. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans-all of them now simply scrambling to survive-who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology-satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.īut she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory-she is part bird, part human, part many other things. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann, cat Neo, and a yard full of native plants.The Strange Bird-from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer-is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. Called “the weird Thoreau” by The New Yorker, VanderMeer frequently speaks about issues related to climate change and storytelling. Forthcoming work include A Peculiar Peril (FSG Kids) and Hummingbird Salamander (MCD/FSG) which has been optioned by Netflix and Michael Sugar (Anonymous Content). These novels, set in the Borne universe, are being developed for TV by AMC and continue to explore themes related to the environment, animals, and our future. Recent works include Dead Astronauts, Borne (a finalist for the Arthur C. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into a movie by Paramount in 2018. His NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages.
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