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The Ninth Metal

Autor Benjamin Percy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2021

Considerăm că atmosfera din The Ninth Metal te trimite imediat cu gândul la explorarea fenomenelor extraterestre din Earthunder, deși Benjamin Percy înlocuiește aventura solitară a căutătorului de meteoriți cu o frescă socială brutală și expansivă. Subliniem modul în care autorul transformă un orășel din Minnesota într-un câmp de luptă geopolitic, unde resturile cometei Cain nu aduc doar miracole tehnologice, ci și o violență regenerată, amintind de goana după aur de altădată.

Sistemul tehnologic prezentat este pilonul central al romanului. Găsim în „omnimetal” o substanță fascinantă care sfidează fizica tradițională, fiind capabilă să alimenteze orașe întregi sau să devină fundamentul unor arme de o putere terifiantă. Această dualitate este explorată prin ochii Victoriei Lennon, o fiziciană captivă în laboratoarele Departamentului de Apărare, oferind o perspectivă de tip thriller corporatist care se împletește cu drama de familie a clanului Frontier. Ritmul este unul alert, specific unui roman polițist, dar mizele sunt ridicate la nivel global prin implicațiile acestei resurse unice.

Poziționând lucrarea în contextul operei lui Benjamin Percy, observăm o evoluție interesantă. Dacă în volumele din seria Ghost Rider, precum Ghost Rider Vol. 3, autorul explora supranaturalul visceral și justiția sângeroasă, în The Ninth Metal el își rafinează stilul prin „genre-bending”. El păstrează interesul pentru personajele marginale și forțele distructive, dar le ancorează într-o realitate speculativă mult mai densă și mai riguros construită, pregătind terenul pentru următoarele volume din The Comet Cycle.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328544865
ISBN-10: 1328544869
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 132 x 199 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un science-fiction ancorat în realitatea socială și politică. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură intensă, ce îmbină rigoarea științifică cu tensiunea unui western modern. Este alegerea ideală pentru fanii care apreciază construcția unei lumi în care o singură schimbare tehnologică rescrie complet regulile puterii și ale moralității umane.


Despre autor

Benjamin Percy este un scriitor premiat, deținător al Whiting Writers Award și al două premii Pushcart, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a naviga între literatura de gen și cea mainstream. Stabilit în Minnesota, Percy folosește adesea peisajul rural american ca fundal pentru povești încărcate de tensiune. Pe lângă romanele sale precum „The Wilding”, el este o voce influentă în lumea benzilor desenate, scriind pentru titluri celebre precum Ghost Rider sau Wolverine. Această experiență în mediul vizual se traduce într-un stil narativ dinamic și cinematic în cadrul seriei The Comet Cycle.


Descriere scurtă

“[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.

Recenzii

“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   “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 best-selling author of the Caster Chronicles   “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   "Percy is an accomplished superhero comic writer, and that aesthetic is evident from page one. The plot is dynamic, featuring multiple viewpoints as well as corporate malfeasance, spooky cults, and family drama...all of these moving parts work together due to strong characterization...contributing to an overall cinematic feel. While the novel comes to a satisfying conclusion, this is the first book in an anticipated trilogy." Booklist   "[Percy] is deft at catching attention with sharp lines of dialogue or bursts of action." New York Times Book Review   "Immersive and imaginative...a clever amalgamation of speculative fiction and family drama, of supercharged characters and regular folk, encompassing various viewpoints in a highly cinematic narrative." Star Tribune   "Inventive but grounded, this is a smart take on the modern resource rush." Elle   "How is [THE NINTH METAL] as a standalone novel? And how does it do at evoking the sense of something larger? The answers, in short, are “very good” and “very well”... an unexpected delight." Tor   "The engine of the novel, first of a trilogy, has a lot of moving parts but Percy keeps them all meshing nicely together with sinewy prose and strong characterization." Financial Times

Notă biografică

BENJAMIN PERCY has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He is the author of the novels The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding; three story collections; and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He lives in Minnesota with his family.

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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.