The amorphous creature Borne, once entangled in the fur of a flying bear maddened by a notorious biotech company, is protected by Rachel from her lover, Wick, who wants to render Borne into material for manufacturing drugs. As the dynamic between Borne, Rachel and Wick gets more complicated, and as further biotech conspiracies emerge, the "Annihilation" author proves himself on wildly imaginative form.

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor, and the author most recently of the New York Timesbestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.