Borne

A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy “Am I a person?” Borne asks Rachel, in extremis.“Yes, you are a person, ...

A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy “Am I a person?” Borne asks Rachel, in extremis.“Yes, you are a person,” Rachel tells him. “But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne.At first, Borne looks like nothing at all? a green lump that might be a discard from t