Firefight (2001)
Firefight is a 2001 guerrilla warfare book written by Brandon Sanderson.
Newcago is free, and the win left a hole where David's hate used to live. He is still with the Reckoners, still hunting Epics, when the trail pulls him to Babylon Restored, the drowned ruin that was once Manhattan. A High Epic called Regalia rules its flooded streets, and walking into her territory is a gamble David takes anyway. Firefight is the second Reckoners novel, so start with Steelheart. Brandon Sanderson keeps the pulp momentum and the puzzle-box rules about exactly what it takes to kill someone who thinks they are a god.
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What is Firefight about?
Newcago is free, and the win left a hole where David's hate used to live. He is still with the Reckoners, still hunting Epics, when the trail pulls him to Babylon Restored, the drowned ruin that was once Manhattan. A High Epic called Regalia rules its flooded streets, and walking into her territory is a gamble David takes anyway. Firefight is the second Reckoners novel, so start with Steelheart. Brandon Sanderson keeps the pulp momentum and the puzzle-box rules about exactly what it takes to kill someone who thinks they are a god.
When was Firefight published?
Firefight was published in 2001.
Who made Firefight?
Firefight was written by Brandon Sanderson.
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The Boys stays the closest television match, a gallery of monstrous supers and the ordinary people bleeding to stop them. A drowned city ruled by a water-warping tyrant makes BioShock and its sunken Rapture eerily apt. The game inFAMOUS puts the same powers-in-a-broken-city question right in your hands.
Ordinary people fighting back against superpowered tyrants
David and the Reckoners hunt Epics who rule through fear because they can, ordinary people betting their lives against people who are basically gods now. The Boys' corrupt supes running the world, Infamous' street-level fight against super-powered rule, My Hero Academia's society reshaped by power, and The Punisher's one unpowered man against people who think they are untouchable share that same nerve.
Ruined cities built on top of somebody's broken utopia
Firefight sends David into Babylon Restored, the drowned wreck of Manhattan that a High Epic now rules as her own flooded kingdom. BioShock's underwater city collapsed under its founder's ideals, The Last of Us' overgrown ruins, The Scorch Trials' wasteland left by collapse, and Lord of the Flies' small society curdling into its own tyranny all share that same rot.
Powers that follow strict rules, and the trick to beating them
Sanderson's puzzle-box rule is that every Epic has an exact, specific weakness, and the whole book turns on finding it before Regalia finds David first. Fullmetal Alchemist's rigid law of equivalent exchange, Avatar: The Last Airbender's rules for each element, Assassination Classroom's countdown to outsmart an unkillable target, and Shatter Me's power with its own precise limits all reward that same close reading.