Rather than repeating his previous efforts, Borne (2017) breaks new ground, as a bizarre, frightening and wonderful mixture of biotech, post apocalypse, the Weird and the surreal. Wick was grappling with this, with the shock as much as I was, the wrenching dislocation of trying to make two separate worlds match up, the one that was normal and the one that was grotesque, the old and the new – the struggle to make the mundane and the impossible coexist just as it seemed impossible I had ever trailed my fingers through the water of a pond to let the little fish nibble or watched mudskippers through a school-yard fence or eaten at a fancy restaurant.įollowing the success of his Southern Reach Trilogy (2014), Jeff VanderMeer changed tack again. Today, he was several stories tall and a monster. Today, Mord had tried to kill us by crushing us under his tread.
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