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Vandermeer strange bird5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some k. The Strange Bird reads like a parable steeped in metaphor but maintains the. It is not a spin-off but an fine new level of world-building: it provides readers a complementary, expansive new perspective with which to analyze VanderMeer’s universe. 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. The Strange Bird is a digital-only novella from the world of Borne, and a must-read for fans. ![]() 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. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.īut she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory-she is part bird, part human, part many other things. The Strange Bird-from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer-is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. ![]()
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