The Imulsion countermeasure vaporizes all Lambent, including Adam, and the crystallizes the Locust. Contributing Sponsors include Hearst & WDSU TV, The Holt Family Foundation and Lambent Foundation. A new foe, the Lambent, are threatening humanity's dwindling numbers. The book was cited for having a tone of "lambent gray romanticism". A Lambent Brumak destroys the bomb before it can be detonated.