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The Strange Bird audiobook

  • By: Jeff VanderMeer
  • Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Category: Fiction, General, Science Fiction
  • Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
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The Strange Bird Audiobook Summary

The Strange Bird–from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer–expands and weaves deeply into the world of his critically acclaimed 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 Strange Bird manages to escape.

But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology–satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And 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. But 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 simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home.

With The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer to his celebrated novel Borne. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne–a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world.

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The Strange Bird Audiobook Narrator

Emily Woo Zeller is the narrator of The Strange Bird audiobook that was written by Jeff VanderMeer

Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award-winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013. Her voice-over career includes work in animated film and television in Southeast Asia.

About the Author(s) of The Strange Bird

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of The Strange Bird

The Strange Bird Full Details

Narrator Emily Woo Zeller
Length 3 hours 5 minutes
Author Jeff VanderMeer
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781538485675

Subjects

The publisher of the The Strange Bird is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General, Science Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Strange Bird is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781538485675.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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