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The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle Book 2

The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle Book 2

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From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest.

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Product ID:	9781473690158
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	The Comet Cycle
Title:	The Unfamiliar Garden
Subtitle:	The Comet Cycle Book 2
Authors:	Author: Benjamin Percy
Page Count:	224
Subjects:	Science fiction, Science fiction
Description:	Select Guide Rating From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest. ''Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . . turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing'' - International bestselling author Stephen King on The Ninth Metal Named a Most Anticipated SFF Fiction Book by New Scientist It began with a comet. They called it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with two suns. A year later, Earth spun through the debris field the comet left behind. Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of meteors plummeted into the atmosphere, destroying swaths of electrical grids, leaving shores of beaches filled with deceased sea life, and setting acres of land ablaze. It was then, they say, that the sky fell. It was then that Jack lost Mia. Five years after the disappearance of his daughter, Jack has fallen. Once an accomplished professor of botany, he''s now a shell of a man who has all but withdrawn from life. Nora, his ex-wife, has thrown herself into her investigative work. Separately, they have each bandaged over the hole Mia left behind. Just as Jack is uncovering a new form of deadly parasitic fungus in his lab, Nora is assigned to investigate the cases of ritualistic murders dotting Seattle. The rituals consist of etchings - crosshatches are carved into bodies and eyes are scooped out of their sockets. The attackers appear to be possessed. It only takes a moment - for a sickness to infect, for a person to be killed, for a child to be lost. When Nora enlists Jack to identify the cause of this string of vicious deaths, Jack is quick to help. Together, they fight to keep their moments - the unexpected laughter, the extraordinary discoveries, the chance that Mia could come back home - but they find that what they''re up against defies all logic, and what they have to do to save the world will change every life forever. PRAISE FOR THE COMET CYCLE ''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. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read'' Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling on The Ninth Metal ''Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, 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, No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author on The Ninth Metal ''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 winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf on The Ninth Metal ''Masterful . . . Combines a missing-person case, romantic reconciliation, and a riveting sci-fi what-if . . . A thoroughly satisfying near-future glimpse of both disaster and salvation'' Publishers Weekly ''Terrifying, entertaining, and thought-provoking. . . something for everyone, science fiction fans and mystery fans alike'' Kirkus Reviews
Imprint Name:	Hodder Paperback
Publisher Name:	Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2022-07-07

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Weight	160 g
Dimensions	128 × 197 × 22 mm