Borne - A Novel - Hardcover Edition

Jeff VanderMeer

MCD

2017

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 0374115249

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.

“He was born, but I had borne him.”

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.

“Am I a person?” Borne asked me.
“Yes, you are a person,” I told him. “But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”

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.

“He was born, but I had borne him.”

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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Rachel sobrevive fazendo buscas pela cidade destruída e perigosa, cheia de biotechs que foram abandonadas pela Companhia que também se acabou e tudo e todos estão abandonados. Ela acha algo que parecia uma planta enroscado em Mord, uma das biotechs criadas pela Companhia um aterrorizador urso gigante voador. Ela leva para casa essa planta/animal, mesmo contra seu próprio julgamento e de Wick seu parceiro, ela fica com ele é o chama de Borne. Borne começa a crescer e mudar e aprende a falar, para Rachel ele é como uma criança, mas logo ele vira um perigo para a cidade.

Um livro de ficção cientifica em um futuro apocalíptico, contado em primeira pessoa. Os personagens são carismáticos tanto humanos quanto não humanos, um livro emocional, mesmo com a violência você sente que tem uma razão para aquilo, todos querem sobreviver. Em varias ocasiões Rachel se lembra de sua infância com sua família tentando achar um lugar para viver em um mundo totalmente afetado pelo clima, poluição e guerras como refugiados, um tema que esta acontecendo no mundo atual, em um futuro próximo com tecnologia e ciência mais avançada.