![]() ![]() ![]() When Resistance opens, massive monsters (kaiju) habitually slump toward innocent cities, gifted tech-youngsters suppress them in Transformer-like formation, superheroes and villains vie for primacy, and a shadowy corporation appropriately named Utopic is misruling the world. In his treatment of a world gone posthuman, Basu raises subtle questions about the nature of government, the limits of control, and the future of a world that is messed up already. It all takes place in the same superpowered future of its predecessor, the well-received Turbulence some can suddenly clone themselves or fly, others are indestructible and godlike, and still others are simply very ugly. ![]() His second adult novel, Resistance, delivers cinematic sequences and colorful supercharacters duking it out in a smoldering, crowded world. Samit Basu is a wunderkind when it comes to action. Self-referential humor creates a refreshing metafictional world that paves the way for a well-balanced and entertaining superpowered adventure. ![]()
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