He was never in it.

First thing I thought too when I saw it when it was first published.

Yeah. Once you hit the point where Big Balls gets a medal of freedom, the health secretary is bloodletting with lampreys, and there’s wrestling on the South Lawn, you’ve pretty much jumped the Idiocracy shark.

I've had four encounters with wild wolves, each one as clear in my mind as if it was a second ago. Even when they can't be seen, they do change how it feels to walk through a landscape.

Same with bears.