Series
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer · 2 novels · 1 novella · 2017–2019
Borne is set in a ruined, biotech-poisoned city dominated by a giant flying bear named Mord, where a scavenger finds a strange organism she names Borne and raises it, only to discover it may be more dangerous - and more alive - than she expected. Jeff VanderMeer's series continues with the related novels The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts, set in the same devastated world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Borne at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:science fictiongenetic engineeringbig citynear futureeerieadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Bornedarkest · calmest
- Dead Astronautsbrightest
- The Strange Bird: A Borne Storymost intense