The Ninth Metal - The Comet Cycle Vol.1

About the author

Benjamin Percy is the award-winning author of the novel, The Wilding (forthcoming from Graywolf, September 28, 2010), as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006). Publishers Weekly gave The Wilding a starred review, saying "Percy's excellent debut novel...digs into the ambiguous American attitude toward nature as it oscillates between Thoreau's romantic appreciation and sheer gothic horror... It's as close as you can get to a contemporary Deliverance."

Percy's honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Esquire (where he is a regular contributor), Outside, Men's Journal, the Paris Review, Orion, Tin House, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and many other magazines and journals. He teaches in the MFA program at Iowa State and can be found online at benjaminpercy.com.

Summary

From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes an explosive, breakout speculative thriller in which a powerful new metal arrives on Earth in the wake of a meteor shower, triggering a massive new 'gold rush' in the Midwest and turning life as we know it on its head. The first of a cycle of novels set in a shared universe.

Additional text

There's mystery and intrigue and a heavy dose of the Midwest in this book, which bills itself as a modern gold rush

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Percy, Percy Benjamin
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781473690080
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-9008-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The Comet Cycle
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Metallurgy, Metals technology / metallurgy, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe