Only look out for falling buildings, animated statues, monsters with poisonous flatulence, and the possibility of at least a third book to come!’ – MuggleNet ‘If you have the guts to poke your head out of the comfortable and familiar and try a new, somewhat foreign flavor (“international” would be a better description), you will be richly rewarded. “If there is a better series out there about post-modern superheroics, I have yet to see it.” – Playback:stl ‘A post-modern, comedic, smart romp… Resistance is a thrilling, well-paced, enormously entertaining ride… The book is populated by a large cast of superheroes, written with amazing finesse-Basu’s protagonists, antagonists, and even side characters are engaging when they’re being badass, laugh-out-loud funny when they’re being snarky, and heartbreaking when they’re dying.’ – Strange Horizons Some use their powers for good, some for evil, and some just want to pulverize the world’s most iconic monuments and star in their own reality show.īut now, from New York to Tokyo, someone is hunting down supers, killing heroes and villains both, and it’s up to the Unit to stop them…Ĭhapter One on Tor.com, featuring a giant lobster kaiju attacking Tokyo.Ĭhapter Three, in which we meet the superheroes of the Unit and see what happened to Uzma: SF Signal Waterstones.Īlso a July reading-list thing from Buzzfeed. In 2020, eleven years after the passengers of flight BA 142 developed extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires, the world is overrun with supers. What’s not to like?” – Nick Harkaway How would you adapt to a world of superhumans? And how far would you go to stop them destroying it?

“Fresh, exciting heroics with a serious spine.

Resistance by samit basu