[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 scifi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still wouldnt get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open the core of humanitys dark heart. Marlon James, Booker Prize awardwinning author of Black Leopard, Red WolfWhether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Ben Percywith his extraordinary and unrelenting eyedishes 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 of the Caster ChroniclesWhen Benjamin Percy publishes a novel, I have got to read that novel. The Ninth Metal continues his streak of thrilling, incisive genre bending goodness. Its a scifi novel, a crime novel and a superhero 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 comets debris field and the sky rained fire. The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood...

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