'Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . .
turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine
writing, totally engrossing' - International bestselling author
Stephen King on The Ninth Metal Named a Most Anticipated SFF
Fiction Book by New Scientist It began with a comet. They called it
Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night
with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with two
suns. A year later, Earth spun through the debris field the comet
left behind. Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of meteors plummeted
into the atmosphere, destroying swaths of electrical grids, leaving
shores of beaches filled with deceased sea life, and setting acres
of land ablaze. It was then, they say, that the sky fell. It was
then that Jack lost Mia. Five years after the disappearance of his
daughter, Jack has fallen. Once an accomplished professor of
botany, he's now a shell of a man who has all but withdrawn from
life. Nora, his ex-wife, has thrown herself into her investigative
work. Separately, they have each bandaged over the hole Mia left
behind. Just as Jack is uncovering a new form of deadly parasitic
fungus in his lab, Nora is assigned to investigate the cases of
ritualistic murders dotting Seattle. The rituals consist of
etchings - crosshatches are carved into bodies and eyes are scooped
out of their sockets. The attackers appear to be possessed. It only
takes a moment - for a sickness to infect, for a person to be
killed, for a child to be lost. When Nora enlists Jack to identify
the cause of this string of vicious deaths, Jack is quick to help.
Together, they fight to keep their moments - the unexpected
laughter, the extraordinary discoveries, the chance that Mia could
come back home - but they find that what they're up against defies
all logic, and what they have to do to save the world will change
every life forever. PRAISE FOR THE COMET CYCLE 'When Benjamin Percy
publishes a novel, I have got to read that novel. The Ninth Metal
continues his streak of thrilling, incisive genre bending goodness.
Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read'
Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling on The Ninth Metal
'Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural
Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Percy-with his
extraordinary and unrelenting eye-dishes up humanity like some kind
of otherworldly blue plate special, at once deeply familiar and
wildly new' Margaret Stohl, No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author
on The Ninth Metal 'Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two
parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and
bloody western, and it still wouldn't get close to what Ben Percy
does here, which is blow open the core of humanity's dark heart'
Marlon James, Booker Prize winning author of Black Leopard, Red
Wolf on The Ninth Metal 'Masterful . . . Combines a missing-person
case, romantic reconciliation, and a riveting sci-fi what-if . . .
A thoroughly satisfying near-future glimpse of both disaster and
salvation' Publishers Weekly 'Terrifying, entertaining, and
thought-provoking. . . something for everyone, science fiction fans
and mystery fans alike' Kirkus Reviews
General
Imprint: |
Hodder Paperback
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Comet Cycle |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Benjamin Percy
|
Dimensions: |
196 x 128 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4736-9015-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4736-9015-3 |
Barcode: |
9781473690158 |
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