The dark, dangerous, funny and beautifully strange new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture, adapted and directed by Alex Garland. The notes were created to script the podcasts, but the podcasts often contain additional comments that come to me on the fly.Shortlisted for the Arthur C. The podcasts contain spoilers, so it is best to read the section before listening to the podcast or reading the notes. I imagine that for now the podcasts and questions could also be used for a book club sort of discussion. I may be teaching this again a year from now. The questions are still there, but they are scattered throughout the presentation. I also stopped putting a list of questions at the end because the students felt that they had to answer the questions rather than engaging in their own speculations. I focused on character development and issues rather than doing a chronological walk through of the reading. However, these podcasts are organized a bit differently. But my students enjoyed Borne.Īs with Stranger in Olondria, I made podcasts for each section of the book. I’ll bring it back if it ever goes back in print. However, it went out of print and used copies are very expensive. Finch is about a noir Sam Spade or Phillip Marlow-style detective trying to solve a double murder in a city run by “Gray Caps,” fungal alien beings who came up out of the ground.
I used to teach Finch, another Jeff Vandermeer novel in this course. Is Borne another Frankenstein? Will we have Frankenstein versus Frankenstein?
Mord was created by the “Company,” along with other monsters, but they lost control of him. This science fiction novel has a hint of Frankenstein about it.
She takes her salvaged biotech home to find that it grows and learns and becomes a sentient being she calls “Borne.”
She lives in an abandoned, partially-ruined apartment complex called “The Balcony Cliffs,” with Wick, a genius biotech designer. Rachel, a scavenger in a burned out city in a dystopian world, finds a houseplant-sized piece of glowing biotech tangled in the fur of Mord, a giant flying bear who terrorizes the human inhabitants.
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