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Forget quitting booze or starting an exercise regime — the only New Year’s resolution worth making (because it’s the most fun to stick with) is

Award-winning novelist Benjamin Percy discusses his desire to build his own universe of characters and writing his new speculative fiction novel, The Unfamiliar Garden.

Graywolf Press Ben Percy will be speaking at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City on Friday November 8 about his new collection of short stories "Suicide Woods." "Suicide Woods" is author Benjamin Percys latest collection of short stories. The book delivers a combination of horror, crime and weird happenings in the woods. This book is a dark, inventive collection full of eerie and provocative tales. On this edition of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe asks where Percy gets his inspiration for ...

Head below for the full list of SF titles heading your way in June! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Note: Release dates are subject to change.   The Ninth Metal (Comet Cycle #1)—Benjamin Percy (Mariner Books) 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 ...

(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...

The book has already drawn the attention of Stephen King who tweeted a glowing endorsement a few days before "The Ninth Metal" publication date.

Looking for something new to read? Well, The Shining and The Stand author Stephen King recommends The Ninth Metal by Benjamin Percy.

June is upon us, which means it’s time to fill your summer reading list with all the brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books you can stuff into a beach