Borne by Jeff VanderMeer MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00, 323 pages, ISBN 978-0-374-11524-1 With their uncanny ability to somehow tap into the future, science fiction writers have been stimulating readers minds for the past hundred and fifty years . . . usually with tales of science which benefits the human race as it propels us the stars, and spreads our kind throughout the universe. But there’s an alternative point