Book guide
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
A lab-made creature—part bird, part human, part something stranger—escapes into a broken world that hunts anything different.
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About The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
The Strange Bird follows a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—part bird, part human, part many other things. When the lab in which she was created comes under siege and the scientists turn on their animal creations, the Strange Bird escapes by flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture. But she cannot simply soar in peace above the earth. The sky is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology—satellites and drones and other detritus of a human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. 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. 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 something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Borne · Book 1.5 of 2
Content warnings
- animal cruelty
- animal death
- body horror
- torture
- confinement
- medical trauma
- murder
- violence
