Book Title: The ninth metal
Book Series: the comet cycle
UPC: 9781473690073
Narrative Type: Fiction
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 23.2 cm
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults,Adults
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Novel
EAN: 9781473690073
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781473690073
Language: Eng
Item Height: 2.6 cm
Author: Benjamin Percy
Genre: Science Fiction
Topic: Cycling
Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia
Item Weight: 0.38 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
The ninth metal by Benjamin Percy 2021 The comet cycle
It began with a comet. When it came into view on a close pass by Earth, people took off work, gathering on sidewalks and in parking lots to watch it burn by. One year later, Earth spun into the debris field the comet left behind. Minnesota seemed to bear the brunt of the damage: meteors annihilated barns and silos, cratered pastures and hardwood forests, tore up county highways, and evaporated one small town in an instant.
At first, it seems to be a disaster. Until the people of Minnesota notice deposits of unusual metal in the comet's debris. Not gold, silver, copper, tin, iron or any of the noble metals, it's a previously unknown ninth metal: omnimetal. With high-density charging capabilities and conductive properties that can change the world as an energy source, the deposit might be the best thing that ever happened to the northern section of the state, where the economy has been dying for a long time. Or it might be the worst.
It is then that the "gold rush" begins. Farmers sell their metal-rich land for millions. Comet-worshipping cults set up compounds and repeat the phrase "Metal is" as their mantra. Roughnecks flood the town, hungry for work and trouble. Prostitutes flourish. Businesses rise. Families are divided. Saudis bid against the Chinese on land grabs. Bodies lie in shallow graves. As witnessed when oil was discovered in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota, the heartland in our story goes from the middle of nowhere to the center of everything. And one family--the Frontiers--hopes to control it all.
