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The Massive #3
The Massive, Vol. 3: Longship
In T he Massive Volume 3: Longship , Callum Israel and Ninth Wave go head to head with a disgraced comrade threatening nuclear war, a rogue faction of the US Navy working as pirates in New York Harbor, and a colony of Norwegian whalers who hunt in the Viking tradition. Collects issues #13–#18 of The Massive. Written by New York Times bestselling author Brian Wood.
152 pages, Paperback
First published July 8, 2014
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Brian Wood
1,173 books962 followersBrian Wood's history of published work includes over fifty volumes of genre-spanning original material.
From the 1500-page future war epic DMZ, the ecological disaster series The Massive, the American crime drama Briggs Land, and the groundbreaking lo-fi dystopia Channel Zero he has a 20-year track record of marrying thoughtful world-building and political commentary with compelling and diverse characters.
His YA novels - Demo, Local, The New York Four, and Mara - have made YALSA and New York Public Library best-of lists. His historical fiction - the viking series Northlanders, the American Revolution-centered Rebels, and the norse-samurai mashup Sword Daughter - are benchmarks in the comic book industry.
He's written some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Terminator, RoboCop, Conan The Barbarian, Robotech, and Planet Of The Apes. He’s written number-one-selling series for Marvel Comics. And he’s created and written multiple canonical stories for the Aliens universe, including the Zula Hendricks character.
From the 1500-page future war epic DMZ, the ecological disaster series The Massive, the American crime drama Briggs Land, and the groundbreaking lo-fi dystopia Channel Zero he has a 20-year track record of marrying thoughtful world-building and political commentary with compelling and diverse characters.
His YA novels - Demo, Local, The New York Four, and Mara - have made YALSA and New York Public Library best-of lists. His historical fiction - the viking series Northlanders, the American Revolution-centered Rebels, and the norse-samurai mashup Sword Daughter - are benchmarks in the comic book industry.
He's written some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Terminator, RoboCop, Conan The Barbarian, Robotech, and Planet Of The Apes. He’s written number-one-selling series for Marvel Comics. And he’s created and written multiple canonical stories for the Aliens universe, including the Zula Hendricks character.
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May 11, 2017
Two and half water-logged stars rounded down.
Shiver me timbers and blow me down and I yam what I yam, but Brian Wood’s The Massive is starting to flounder.
“Avast ye maties!! Watch out for the icebergs on that thar starboard side!”
“Full rudders a stern, ya land lubbers!”
“Set the bilge pumps a pumpin’ were capsizing.”
“Batten the hatches as the crow flies and belay those orders, ya barnacle-lovin’ salty sea dog!!!
Okay, Jeff, now you’re just embarrassing yourself. Just get on with the review.
An old pal of somebody steals a nuclear sub and there’s an old school blood feud a brewin’ in the continued episodic adventures of the Kapital.
If we’re not being overrun by zombies, or nuked, or taken over by sentient robots or huge trees, then some kid left the faucet on and the world went and got itself flooded.
Stay in school, turn the tap off after you brush your teeth, and don’t do drugs, kids!
The Kapital used to be a Greenpeace kind of ship, now it just tries to stay afloat (Just stop, Jeff) in a chaotic world. The crew of course all have agendas and secret cutthroat pasts.
The book has become rudderless (Sorry! and what was once a promising series is looking a little green around the gills.
Yeah, first world problems in the Apocalypse. Man up!
Question: What the hell happened to the titular (heh!) ship the Massive? It’s been awhile between volumes. Did she sink? Is she adrift somewhere? Did Brian Wood forget about her?
Anyway, someone throw me a life preserver.
Shiver me timbers and blow me down and I yam what I yam, but Brian Wood’s The Massive is starting to flounder.
“Avast ye maties!! Watch out for the icebergs on that thar starboard side!”
“Full rudders a stern, ya land lubbers!”
“Set the bilge pumps a pumpin’ were capsizing.”
“Batten the hatches as the crow flies and belay those orders, ya barnacle-lovin’ salty sea dog!!!
Okay, Jeff, now you’re just embarrassing yourself. Just get on with the review.
An old pal of somebody steals a nuclear sub and there’s an old school blood feud a brewin’ in the continued episodic adventures of the Kapital.
If we’re not being overrun by zombies, or nuked, or taken over by sentient robots or huge trees, then some kid left the faucet on and the world went and got itself flooded.
Stay in school, turn the tap off after you brush your teeth, and don’t do drugs, kids!
The Kapital used to be a Greenpeace kind of ship, now it just tries to stay afloat (Just stop, Jeff) in a chaotic world. The crew of course all have agendas and secret cutthroat pasts.
The book has become rudderless (Sorry! and what was once a promising series is looking a little green around the gills.
Yeah, first world problems in the Apocalypse. Man up!
Question: What the hell happened to the titular (heh!) ship the Massive? It’s been awhile between volumes. Did she sink? Is she adrift somewhere? Did Brian Wood forget about her?
Anyway, someone throw me a life preserver.
August 16, 2018
As with a lot of Brian Wood's stuff, his characters often do inexplicable things that often leave me going "Why the fuck did that just happen?". In this case both stories left me feeling that way. In the first Georg is back and in the second Bors I just don't get it. I did like that you finally find out what's going on in America. In the second story, I actually thought it was pretty cool that these Norwegians had went back to their old ways and hunted whales to feed themselves. They were only hunting what they could eat and the whales were no longer endangered. Wood is turning Callum into this incredibly unlikable, belligerent main character and I don't care for it.
April 15, 2021
I really thought this series was starting to get a bit derailed after the last sub-story and in some ways this volume isn't that much different. It's weird, I found it both better and, not necessarily worse, just less directed on the stories main mission. It feels like the search for The Massive has been put on hold entirely and now the author just wanted to show more parts of our world in ruins. More of what other societies were trying to do to survive. This is all well and good, but this really feels like filler content at the end of the day. It feels like they are trying to extend this story beyond it's normal plan, maybe because the comics were selling well at the time?
That being said, the overarching part of these stories is not bad at all, in fact I quite liked them. It's really the conclusion of both of these tales that made no sense or was just plain poorly written, in my opinion. It's almost like Wood had an idea for a story, then couldn't figure out a logical way to end it, so he went with whatever whimsy crossed his mind at the time. This may not actually be true, but this is absolutely how these stories read.
Americana: This three issue story finally finds us in the U.S. One of the reasons why I did enjoy The Massive quite a bit is because it sort of avoided the usual American centric tales of a lot of comic books. I like how it downplayed the American presence as not being that important for the survival of the world, something I find a breath of fresh air considering how much "American exceptionalism" those of us who live in this country run into on the daily.
We don't see very much of the U.S. in this series and they never make landfall. Instead the Kapital is on the outskirts of the very flooded New York City. It's basically the same as the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". The excuse is not hunting The Massive this time, instead they've been following Georg, the guy who stole the nuclear sub from Moksha. I thought this was a very cool way to side-track things. Then the U.S. Navy shows up trying to stop the Kapitel, but they don't know about the sub! So, it created a really interesting and tense situation. It also hinted to the fact that while America was substantially in ruins, the military were kind of doing their own thing despite what the formal government might demand. The tense stand off was well written and great... until we get to the end.
For whatever reason, Georg launches the full compliment of nuclear missiles to strike around the world. I thought this was a cool idea and would make the world even crazier... but then Mary does something? Something, supernatural, maybe? And the compliment of missiles never detonates. They cut to a news scene of someone say "nothing short of a miracle...", seriously, what happened? There was no explanation. There was no explanation of why Georg launched. It was like Wood decided at the last minute he didn't want the missiles to hit their targets after launch and rather than come up with realistic scenarios of anti ICBM defense systems... he went with "Mary did something??? Utterly unsatisfying and kind of stupid."
Longship The second story arc brings us to Norway. If you thought the "Americana" story would move to this one seamlessly, think again. We're in Norway now and we're stopping whalers. Just, uhm... because this is what we're doing now. Callum finds an old enemy named Bors who has founded a new early age community in Norway. They've basically gone back to basics and live like Vikings, even down to hunting the whales in longships. They've designed a community that lives off the land in such a way that they take only what they need to survive. They do not hunt to excess etc. Some members of Callum's crew are fine with that, because they will not be hunting animals to extinction as was the case before the collapse. So, Mag, the second in command doesn't see why they are going after these people. Instead this is more about Callum's vendetta against Bors. Also... Mary left. Why did Mary leave? We never find out, she's just gone etc.
Anyway, Callum decides he needs to stop these whalers and they go to task trying to put and end to it. Eventually, the Kapitel being a huge ship facing off against ancient Viking boats doesn't really work. The old boats are too fast and the Kapitel doesn't really have enough of a crew, and the long ships can use anti-whaling tactics against the Kapitel itself by throwing rope into the propeller. In the end Callum kind of loses it and goes after Bors personally.
The face off in the third issue with Bors was actually pretty good. Right up until the very end. It was almost as if Bors and Callum had come to an understanding of everything that happened. But then at the end Bors jumps off a cliff and dies... why? No one knows. It seems like Wood just wanted to have a scene with a Viking funeral at the end and this was the only way he could think to ever get there...
In the end, two bad endings to the two story arcs here are what kind of ruined the tales for me. They were well illustrated and well written up until the very end. Ugh, so unsatisfying. This series could be so much better, because the effort Wood is putting into his world building is actually quite wonderful. I love almost everything about this, almost.
That being said, the overarching part of these stories is not bad at all, in fact I quite liked them. It's really the conclusion of both of these tales that made no sense or was just plain poorly written, in my opinion. It's almost like Wood had an idea for a story, then couldn't figure out a logical way to end it, so he went with whatever whimsy crossed his mind at the time. This may not actually be true, but this is absolutely how these stories read.
Americana: This three issue story finally finds us in the U.S. One of the reasons why I did enjoy The Massive quite a bit is because it sort of avoided the usual American centric tales of a lot of comic books. I like how it downplayed the American presence as not being that important for the survival of the world, something I find a breath of fresh air considering how much "American exceptionalism" those of us who live in this country run into on the daily.
We don't see very much of the U.S. in this series and they never make landfall. Instead the Kapital is on the outskirts of the very flooded New York City. It's basically the same as the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". The excuse is not hunting The Massive this time, instead they've been following Georg, the guy who stole the nuclear sub from Moksha. I thought this was a very cool way to side-track things. Then the U.S. Navy shows up trying to stop the Kapitel, but they don't know about the sub! So, it created a really interesting and tense situation. It also hinted to the fact that while America was substantially in ruins, the military were kind of doing their own thing despite what the formal government might demand. The tense stand off was well written and great... until we get to the end.
For whatever reason, Georg launches the full compliment of nuclear missiles to strike around the world. I thought this was a cool idea and would make the world even crazier... but then Mary does something? Something, supernatural, maybe? And the compliment of missiles never detonates. They cut to a news scene of someone say "nothing short of a miracle...", seriously, what happened? There was no explanation. There was no explanation of why Georg launched. It was like Wood decided at the last minute he didn't want the missiles to hit their targets after launch and rather than come up with realistic scenarios of anti ICBM defense systems... he went with "Mary did something??? Utterly unsatisfying and kind of stupid."
Longship The second story arc brings us to Norway. If you thought the "Americana" story would move to this one seamlessly, think again. We're in Norway now and we're stopping whalers. Just, uhm... because this is what we're doing now. Callum finds an old enemy named Bors who has founded a new early age community in Norway. They've basically gone back to basics and live like Vikings, even down to hunting the whales in longships. They've designed a community that lives off the land in such a way that they take only what they need to survive. They do not hunt to excess etc. Some members of Callum's crew are fine with that, because they will not be hunting animals to extinction as was the case before the collapse. So, Mag, the second in command doesn't see why they are going after these people. Instead this is more about Callum's vendetta against Bors. Also... Mary left. Why did Mary leave? We never find out, she's just gone etc.
Anyway, Callum decides he needs to stop these whalers and they go to task trying to put and end to it. Eventually, the Kapitel being a huge ship facing off against ancient Viking boats doesn't really work. The old boats are too fast and the Kapitel doesn't really have enough of a crew, and the long ships can use anti-whaling tactics against the Kapitel itself by throwing rope into the propeller. In the end Callum kind of loses it and goes after Bors personally.
The face off in the third issue with Bors was actually pretty good. Right up until the very end. It was almost as if Bors and Callum had come to an understanding of everything that happened. But then at the end Bors jumps off a cliff and dies... why? No one knows. It seems like Wood just wanted to have a scene with a Viking funeral at the end and this was the only way he could think to ever get there...
In the end, two bad endings to the two story arcs here are what kind of ruined the tales for me. They were well illustrated and well written up until the very end. Ugh, so unsatisfying. This series could be so much better, because the effort Wood is putting into his world building is actually quite wonderful. I love almost everything about this, almost.
August 4, 2017
I've lately been intrigued by the idea that you can tell something about the author by the work. Brian Wood is clearly the kind of man who wakes up in the morning, reads some serious articles on the internet, and then frowns with a studious expression.
February 7, 2019
I didn't understand what happened at the end of the 3rd issue/chapter at all, and thought Callum was causing his own stupid problems in the 2nd storyline. Otherwise though, still a solid read.
August 1, 2019
I’m not convinced that this series should have progressed past 2 volumes. I’m a Wood fan but this isn’t his best stuff and doesn’t measure up to DMZ quite frankly. If you read the first 6 issues of Starve and wondered rightfully so that the series should not have progressed to a second volume you’ll understand my hesitation with giving The Massive Vol.3 anything but a 3.
July 20, 2016
Hmm. I mostly liked this, but it sucks when characters or narratives go down paths you wish they wouldn't.
Georg the Russian who stole the nuclear sub has headed to New York City, followed by the Kapital. Then later, Callum tracks down an old enemy and rekindles an old war. That's the nutshell.
My problem is with this war. I know it's, not necessarily in character, but in context, I know this post-Crash world is tribe versus tribe and fight after fight, I know Callum is sick, but there's no logic to it and the war takes up half the book.
It's like when a character who's normally a moral example undergoes an emotional trauma and becomes amoral or morally ambivalent, and as a reader you hate to watch them backslide and worse yet, become the villain who opposes someone who's genuinely innocent purely on a principle that has since become null, void, and irrelevant. That's what happened here with Callum and I didn't like it one bit.
That said, the writing is still top notch and the artwork is phenomenal. I just hope things turn around in Volume 4. And seriously, where the fuck is the Massive?
March 3, 2016
This one pulled me in better than the previous volume, but was also very frustrating. Up to this point in the story, the environmental agenda of Ninth Wave has been shown in dialogue and pre-Crash flashbacks. So finally they are getting back to work--by attacking traditional subsistence whalers harvesting a few animals of an abundant whale species. Their motivation is explained, but I immediately became more invested in the story of the whalers than that of our heroes. That brings me to my biggest problem with the series, lack of investment. I don't really care about most of the characters or their goals. Since I have never seen the Massive or met anyone in its crew, I am not all that concerned with finding it. No one on the Kapital seems to miss any specific people either.
I will probably keep reading out of mild curiosity, but it wouldn't be difficult to just walk away.
I will probably keep reading out of mild curiosity, but it wouldn't be difficult to just walk away.
November 14, 2014
It's fascinating how Wood manages to craft a post-apocalyptic tale without slipping into the usual cliches. This feels real. There are no outlandish costumes or packs of mutants roaming the wastelands or anything like that. These are real people holding onto as much of their way of life as they can. Still not sure where this is all going. I suppose I'll have to wait for Volume 4 and maybe beyond.
December 27, 2015
God what an annoying story was the second one. I started reading this series because I loved the epic climate scenes with waves big as sky scrapers which was very nice. But now the series is starting to depend on the story line, and sadly for me that does not seem good enough to continue reading. Shame, because this could have been very good.
August 3, 2014
This trade dropped a star for me. Still a solid TPB, but in comparison to the first two - this one just couldn't seem to keep up.
October 31, 2017
Tercer y último volumen (hasta ahora) a mi alcance de la gran serie de Wood y Brown. "Longship" retoma un argumento que quedara colgado del tomo anterior- Georg, el piradito, se llevó un submarino nuclear- y nos traslada (algo abruptamente, dado que al final del anterior volumen el Kapital estaba atrapado por los hielos del Ártico) a EEUU, país al que el Crash destrozó casi que por completo y se encuentra en el estado más salvaje que pudiéramos esperar. Callum Israel y su tripulación deberán lidiar además en este mismo tomo con un viejo conocido de su pasado: Bors Bergsen, otrora un despiadado empresario de la pesca noruego -y el motivo de la fundación de Novena Ola por su caza ilegal de ballenas- hoy día convertido en un pescador de ballenas a la usanza tradicional quien busca que su gente simplemente sobreviva. El enfrentamiento es por demás interesante, ya que Callum se muestra inflexible en defender a las ballenas, incluso cuando su caza ahora es mínima y por consumo básico (y supervivencia), lo que hace que su tripulación -con Mal a la cabeza- se ponga en su contra. ¿Y Mary? Ah, Mary molesta cada vez más con su mensaje pseudosobrenatural y creo que Wood se da cuenta porque la saca del medio de repente. A pesar de su buen desarrollo, The Massive da muestras de un poquito de agote argumental -o yo me leí demasiados números de un tirón- y este es el primer tomo que no mantiene o mejora el nivel. Y eso que está dibujado sin altibajos -por una vez- ya que es Garry Brown el dibujante principal de estos números, sin suplentes que le tiren abajo el arte. Dejaremos pasar un tiempo antes de volver a este universo y atacar los dos tomos finales.
January 12, 2022
Good art, an interesting, but I can't get with the particular plots or characters in this volume. Like the Kapital itself, the story meanders from here to there, never giving a clear picture of what the world outside the ship is like. There's also a strange amount of deference given to a Norwegian fascist in the second arc of this volume. In general, I think this premise would be written very differently today, especially by an author who's more immediately engaged with the cost of climate change. This is just too cynical for its own sake.
December 8, 2023
Non ci siamo, non ci siamo.
Questo 3o volume porta con sé dei nuovi punti interrogativi e sento che si sta prendendo una strada un po' troppo folcloristica, diciamo così.
Non ho capito neache la reazione avuta verso fine volume da un personaggio, davvero nosense.
Allora perché non metto 2 stelle, per il semplice fatto che la lettura rimane gradevole, Wood sa scrivere bene, pochi cazzi.
Concludo come ho cominciato, non ci siano...
Questo 3o volume porta con sé dei nuovi punti interrogativi e sento che si sta prendendo una strada un po' troppo folcloristica, diciamo così.
Non ho capito neache la reazione avuta verso fine volume da un personaggio, davvero nosense.
Allora perché non metto 2 stelle, per il semplice fatto che la lettura rimane gradevole, Wood sa scrivere bene, pochi cazzi.
Concludo come ho cominciato, non ci siano...
November 12, 2020
This was another volume that seemed to be building up to a longer/larger tale, before side-stepping in a more personal story for Isreal.
We finally got some emotional depth from some of the characters here, especially Bors and Isreal, which I appreciated, but by the end, it left me very underwhelmed.
We finally got some emotional depth from some of the characters here, especially Bors and Isreal, which I appreciated, but by the end, it left me very underwhelmed.
April 8, 2020
I thought that this particular run was a bit slapped together, at least from the perspective of the writing. Jordie Bellaire's color work is simply mesmerizing and I liked the overall art. But characterization felt forced.
May 8, 2017
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
August 11, 2017
I'm still really enjoying this series, but I thought this one slightly lost momentum and perhaps jumped around a little too much.
August 27, 2017
two stars for two thoughts -
1. I really don't care for any single one of these characters nor for their stupid plights
2. where the fuck is that boat
1. I really don't care for any single one of these characters nor for their stupid plights
2. where the fuck is that boat
November 2, 2017
This was probably my least favorite of the 5 book series, but it was still enjoyable. I just finished the whole series and completely enjoyed it.
January 17, 2018
Not the most coherent story. Come this far though...
August 30, 2018
Again, a cool expansion on the initial plot and characters. Looking forward to volume four.
December 3, 2020
This series is brimming with potential and just doesn't deliver. I like the environmental art but not the faces. The writing is solid, but directionless.
September 9, 2021
Wow. Just... WOW.
July 29, 2022
The supernatural stuff is so not needed, and I know it's not going to make sense or have a satisfying explanation.
February 15, 2017
From a deadly game of cat-and-mouse through the flooded ruins of New York with the remnants of the US Navy, hunting one of their own gone rogue in a nuclear submarine, to a deadly face-off in a Norwegian Fjord with post-Crash whale-hunting vikings that's as much about a bitter old grudge as it is about saving the whales, Callum Israel and the crew of the Kapital try to make their mark and do some good in a shattered world full of violence and compromise and brute necessity. Epic and sweeping in scope, global in outlook, perceiving the tangled knots of lives, needs and politics with a cool clarity, The Massive continues to be an adventure for the age.
November 21, 2015
The Massive, Longship is the third installment in this series about an environmentalist group trying to take action against pollution, social injustice, and other Western concerns. The series is set in a dystopian future, after most of today's powers have collapsed due to natural and social disasters. Overall, the series is finally picking up, developing a story, and its characters. The top quality graphics are also drawing me in. You could try this without being turned off.
The graphics are very nice, with a detailed style that fits the action theme. The diversity of backgrounds is impressive. The characters are well portrayed and quite distinctive. The whaling and the underwater scenes are memorable.
In this episode, Cal Israel and his crew travel to mostly submerged New York and to whaling paradise Reykjavik, where they go through various adventures when encountering the locals. While the New York story is mostly adventure and no brain, the Reykjavik part is nuanced and depicts quite well the difficulty of identifying and accepting responsible whaling.
The characters are starting to emerge, and in particular Israel faces wicked choices that lead to loss of crew and of his life partner. His inability to pursue a higher goal is making him almost endearing, for the first time since the series started.
The graphics are very nice, with a detailed style that fits the action theme. The diversity of backgrounds is impressive. The characters are well portrayed and quite distinctive. The whaling and the underwater scenes are memorable.
In this episode, Cal Israel and his crew travel to mostly submerged New York and to whaling paradise Reykjavik, where they go through various adventures when encountering the locals. While the New York story is mostly adventure and no brain, the Reykjavik part is nuanced and depicts quite well the difficulty of identifying and accepting responsible whaling.
The characters are starting to emerge, and in particular Israel faces wicked choices that lead to loss of crew and of his life partner. His inability to pursue a higher goal is making him almost endearing, for the first time since the series started.
January 15, 2016
This is the volume for the disaster porn fans - Wood finally unleashes details about some of the events that devastated the world in the Crash, even using one familiar city as the setting for the first half of the story, as events set in motion in the previous volume come to fruition here in a tense standoff. The second half is a smaller story about Cal facing down one of his nemeses, whose life has changed significantly post-Crash. There's a dichotomy between the punishment Cal is trying to deliver and the reason behind it and whether it is even valid post-Crash, which leads to dissent among the team. It's an interesting picture and lets us get to know the characters more. All told this is a good volume, but it loses a bit because both arcs end with 'What?' moments; things that are left unexplained or don't seem to follow the arc of the story or are out of character. Maybe I just don't have a good enough grasp on the characters, but the first arc seems to throw a huge shadow over what we know of a main character, and the second arc's resolution just doesn't gel at all. But if you can get past that, this is a well-crafted apocalypse, and this volume especially highlights just how much has been lost.
October 29, 2016
Following the story as it progressed in
Subcontinental
, this volume offers two more three-issue arcs: Americana and Longship.
The first one has Kapital track the elusive shadow echo of the Massive to New York, a city now under water, and encountering various forces in opposition to the crew.
The second one, which is one of the strongest entries thus far, has Callum and crew face off an old school Norwegian whaler, Bors Bergsen, with whom Callum has an old score to settle. The problem being that while Kapital has a legitimate concern dating back to its pre-Crash preservation mission, Bergsen and his community is now hunting in a more natural fashion, in synch with the redeveloping ecosystem. Suddenly, issues are very far from black and white, and Callum's refusal to acknowledge this may prove fatal for Kapital.
Brian Wood continues the expansion of his post-Crash storyworld and keeps his narrative going. In a sense, this is by no means a fast-paced thriller, but the development is still very intriguing, and Wood and his collaborators are very good at pulling a reader into this world after the world.
The first one has Kapital track the elusive shadow echo of the Massive to New York, a city now under water, and encountering various forces in opposition to the crew.
The second one, which is one of the strongest entries thus far, has Callum and crew face off an old school Norwegian whaler, Bors Bergsen, with whom Callum has an old score to settle. The problem being that while Kapital has a legitimate concern dating back to its pre-Crash preservation mission, Bergsen and his community is now hunting in a more natural fashion, in synch with the redeveloping ecosystem. Suddenly, issues are very far from black and white, and Callum's refusal to acknowledge this may prove fatal for Kapital.
Brian Wood continues the expansion of his post-Crash storyworld and keeps his narrative going. In a sense, this is by no means a fast-paced thriller, but the development is still very intriguing, and Wood and his collaborators are very good at pulling a reader into this world after the world.
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