{"title":"Jeff VanderMeer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"strange-bird-jeff-vandermeer-paperback","title":"The Strange Bird: A Borne Story -- Jeff VanderMeer, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Strange Bird\u003c\/i\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer--expands and weaves deeply into the world of his \"thorough marvel\"* of a novel, \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology--satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans--all of them now simply scrambling to survive--who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Bird, \u003c\/i\u003eJeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne--a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e*\u003c\/i\u003e\"Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel.\" --Colson Whitehead \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in \u003ci\u003eBorne \u003c\/i\u003e. . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing, one fixed destiny, but as either peaceful or catastrophic, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates--for these are our children, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created. This coming-of-age story signals that eco-fiction has come of age as well: wilder, more reckless and more breathtaking than previously thought, a wager and a promise that what emerges from the twenty-first century will be as good as any from the twentieth, or the nineteenth.\" --Wai Chee Dimock, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff VanderMeer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff VanderMeer\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning novelist and editor, and the author of the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuthority\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Acceptance.\u003c\/i\u003e His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fantastic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and multiple year's-best anthologies. 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She was the editor-in-chief for \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing \u003ci\u003eThe Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Other projects have included \u003ci\u003eBest American Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e, three Steampunk anthologies, and a humor book, \u003ci\u003eThe Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals\u003c\/i\u003e. Her latest anthologies include \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveler's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSisters of the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of feminist speculative fiction and \u003ci\u003eThe Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of original fiction and art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), \u003c\/i\u003ewhich \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e included on its list of the top ten novels of 2014 and which prompted the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e to call the author \"the weird Thoreau.\" The series has been acquired by publishers in 34 other countries. Paramount Pictures\/Scott Rudin Productions acquired the movie rights and \u003ci\u003eAnnihilatio\u003c\/i\u003en won both the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. 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Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.\u003cbr\u003e This is the twelfth expedition.\u003cbr\u003e Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. 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