The Ninth Metal

Author:   Benjamin Percy ,  Julia Whelan
Publisher:   Hmh Adult Audio
Volume:   1
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9781799968818


Publication Date:   01 June 2021
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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[In THE NINTH METAL] debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal on Northfall, MN., turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing. --Stephen King 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 award-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Ben 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, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Caster Chronicles 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. It's a sci-fi novel, a crime novel and a super-hero novel, too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read. --Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling IT BEGAN WITH A COMET... At first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant tear in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet's debris field and the sky rained fire. The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This omnimetal has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source...and a weapon. John Frontier--the troubled scion of an iron-ore dynasty in Northfall--returns for his sister's wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government. Physicist Victoria Lennon was recruited by the Department of Defense to research omnimetal, but she finds herself trapped in a laboratory of nightmares. And across town, a rookie cop is investigating a murder that puts her own life in the crosshairs. She will have to compromise her moral code to bring justice to this now lawless community. In this gut-punch of a novel, the first in his Comet Cycle, Ben Percy lays bare how a modern-day goldrush has turned the middle of nowhere into the center of everything, and how one family--the Frontiers--hopes to control it all.

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Author:   Benjamin Percy ,  Julia Whelan
Publisher:   Hmh Adult Audio
Imprint:   Hmh Adult Audio
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   0.077kg
ISBN:  

9781799968818


ISBN 10:   1799968812
Publication Date:   01 June 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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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. It's a sci-fi novel, a crime novel, and a super-hero novel, too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read. -- Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Ben 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, co-author of Jo & Laurie Wildly entertaining and highly original melange of northern Minnesota lore and slam-bang near-future SF action...Percy's dead-on local color, strong central characters, and well-integrated flashbacks into the making of a modern samurai will delight and entertain both comics fans and serious science fiction readers. This is an impressive series starter. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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 award-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf


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. It's a sci-fi novel, a crime novel and a super-hero novel, too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read. -Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Ben 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, #1 New York Times bestselling author 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 award-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf


Author Information

Benjamin Percy has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novels The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, three story collections, and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes the Green Arrow and Teen Titans series for DC Comics. Julia Whelan, an Earphones award winner, is a former child actor who has appeared in multiple television shows, most notably Once and Again. After receiving her college degree, she returned to the film industry, and is also a writer. Her audiobook credits include memoir, romance, supernatural thrillers, young adult, and adult fiction.

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