Annihilation consumes the reader with raw horror; Authority creeps around the readers' expectation for thrills with a keen, conspiratorial unravelling; Acceptance delivers an alien-yet-familiar world.

Borne tells of a humanity that the reader carries with them through the end-of-the-world to the other side; Borne shapes what comes after. Borne consumes what came before, what the reader could not have shaken off otherwise.