Gipi develops a naturalism and human quality often missing from SF survival fantasies. ... the art reveals a credible vast alternative landscape of mud, water, reedy islands, makeshift boats, and strange and hostile patched-together colonies. It's a strikingly envisioned imaginary world. This evocative, thought-provoking graphic novel will be sure to linger in the reader's mind long after the last page is turned. Gipi's lines work together to convey deep emotion, even in the landscape, with large blocks of negative space lending them more power. Spend some time looking at these drawings. They are magic. Gipi's most fully realized and mature work to date.