![]() Rachel and Wick are survivalists in a biotech ruin. Borne is a new strain, a tale as emotionally and ecologically adventurous as it is a dystopian warning. Any efforts to relate to VanderMeer’s biological marvel through familiars like the Fallout video games, or a kaiju cinema wasteland, or the Parasyte manga and anime series or even Stephen Chow’s lovable film CJ7 would be in vain, half correct, at the risk of missing the point entirely. Jeff VanderMeer deserves better than this and with his latest novel Borne he has created something entirely new. ![]() ![]() Unique voices are met with resistance, their greatness discounted in the face of a catchy selling point that unintentionally renders a work as derivative of something that came before. In the vast world of science fiction, there is a frequent and frequently unfair desire to contextualize an individual work with comparables within its own genre. ![]()
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