The author is also very fond of action scenes, which are imbued with the precise, visceral details of someone used to thinking of a story in visual terms. Meanwhile, hidden in India, a child super with terrifying, godlike powers may be the key to saving the world - or the cause of its destruction.īasu is a graphic novelist as well as a fiction author, and it shows in “Resistance.” The novel is written in present tense with the action happening now, the same way a comic book reader would see scenes unfolding in pictures. Three groups - a powerful corporation reputed to experiment on kidnapped supers, a governmental superhero team and a talented human “mecha” pilot with a dark past - all want to have a hand in the prophecy for their own reasons. And there’s more trouble on the horizon: Psychics everywhere have set a date for the end of the world. Supers around the world, both heroes and villains, have started dying by the hundreds in what appear to be accidents and freak coincidences. Some just wanted their own TV show.Įleven years later, when “Resistance” starts, the world has become overrun with “supers.” Humans are struggling to keep up by means of technology, and tensions between superpower haves and have-nots are on the rise. Naturally, some decided to try and conquer the world. “Resistance” is the sequel to an earlier novel, “Turbulence.” In the first book, passengers on flight BA1422 from London to Delhi mysteriously developed powerful abilities. Basu blends his influences well, and they work smoothly in tandem. It is actually a cross between American superhero comics, Indian mythology and about half a dozen Japanese anime shows. However, it is much, much more than that. “Resistance” by Samit Basu (Titan Books, 289 pages, in stores)Īt first, Samit Basu’s novel, “Resistance,” seems like a cross between the hit film “Pacific Rim” and the X-Men franchise.

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