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Borne
- The Borne Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company - a biotech firm now derelict - and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech.
One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump - plant or animal? - but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts - and definitely against Wick’s wishes - Rachel keeps Borne. She cannot help herself. Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. She begins to feel a protectiveness she can ill afford.
But as Borne grows, he begins to threaten the balance of power in the city and to put the security of her sanctuary with Wick at risk. For the Company, it seems, may not be truly dead, and new enemies are creeping in. What Borne will lay bare to Rachel as he changes is how precarious her existence has been, and how dependent on subterfuge and secrets. In the aftermath, nothing may ever be the same.
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- Skyler Punnett
- 2023-12-30
Great characterization and a sprawling, slow build, bio-tech epic.
A bizarre world that takes time to enter and wrap your head around but soon becomes familiar as it is made up of parts of our own world. Nature becomes the built landscape as the built landscape is subsumed back into nature. Everything is everything else.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-09-17
Great story & narrator
I got into this after reading the Southern Reach Trilogy and it was great! The world they live in is very interesting and I hope to read The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts after this. The narrator did such a great job with Borne’s character - I found it humorous at times.
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- CleverFool
- 2021-12-16
Love VanderMeer's Other Works - this not so much
Conceptually this novel has a lot going for it, but I found in practice it failed to really keep my attention. Ms Turpin does a fine job with narration but compared to some other audible titles may not have the same emotional investment. As a massive fan of the southern reach trilogy I thought this was ultimately fine, but perhaps a but disappointing.
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