In Vir’s case it’s the power to fly and serve India, whilst Aman can telepathically connect to the internet, Uzma has become instantly desirable to the Bollywood moguls she hopes to win over, and Tia has the ability to divide and clone herself a la Multiple Man. Vir, along with a plane-full of passengers on a flight from London to Delhi, has been gifted with a unique and individually-suited power. But Vir doesn’t need a fighter jet to fly, or missiles to strike with he’s a full-blown flying superhero (a scene which is detailed in the exclusive excerpt on the next page). The book opens with Vir, an Indian Air Force pilot, flying over the mountains of Pakistan surveying an enemy nuclear installation preparing for a tactical strike against the enemies of India. But despite the superhero saturation in cinemas right now, Basu’s novel has found a fresh new way of exploring the question that has plagued geeks around the world for decades. What happens when a group of ordinary people are gifted with extraordinary powers? It’s a question that has been asked ad-infinitum in the comic, film and literary world, and it’s asked again once more by Samit Basu in Turbulence.
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