A lab-created creature, part bird and part human, escapes a besieged facility where scientists have turned against their creations. Known as the Strange Bird, she navigates a perilous world of hostile wildlife and human technology, evading capture by humans who seek to exploit her while searching for a place to belong.
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A lab-created creature, part bird and part human, escapes a besieged facility where scientists have turned against their creations. Known as the Strange Bird, she navigates a perilous world of hostile wildlife and human technology, evading capture by humans who seek to exploit her while searching for a place to belong.
The Strange Bird --from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer--expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel" of a novel, Borne . The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the ...
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No sexual content present.
Graphic depictions of violence, body horror, torture, and survival struggles in a biotech-ravaged wasteland.
No profanity or strong language depicted.
No substance use depicted.
No LGBTQIA+ representation.
No religious themes present.
No witchcraft or occult elements.
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Recurring themes of environmental devastation, climate change, and ethical issues with biotechnology.
No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Central depictions of laboratory cruelty to hybrid creatures, systemic suffering, and despair in a dystopian world.
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