Mord was influenced by Richard Adams's Shardik, and his never explained ability to fly was inspired by a character in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. From that image, the rest of the city assembled itself. One day the image of a sea anemone came to him, along with a hand which he knew belonged to Rachel, that reached out to grab the anemone from the fur of a giant bear. VanderMeer had for a long time considered writing about growing up in the South Pacific, where he lived as a child. One day, while searching in Mord's fur, Rachel discovers a sea anemone-like creature that she names "Borne". The perspective character, Rachel, is a scavenger in the city she collects various genetically-engineered organisms and experiments that were created by "the Company", a biotech firm.
The novel takes place in the future, in the ruins of a nameless city dominated by a giant grizzly bear called "Mord". It concerns a post-apocalyptic city setting overrun by biotechnology.
Borne is a 2017 novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer.
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