Unlike most of the previous series spotlights, NINTH CITY BURNING hasn't been published yet! NINTH CITY BURNING is set to hit stores on September 6, 2016 and I can't wait to read it. NINTH CITY BURNING is Black's highly anticipated debut novel and the first in what is to be an incredible series. The war is here, are you ready to fight?
September 6, 2016
Centuries
of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this
gripping, epic science fiction debut...
We never saw them coming.
Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wield the power too.
Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. Those who refused to support the war have been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth.
But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters, and fight back.
We never saw them coming.
Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wield the power too.
Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. Those who refused to support the war have been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth.
But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters, and fight back.
EXCERPT
The
Valentine War, Earth 500 Years Ago
It
starts with the world how it used to be, with countries and billions of people
living everywhere. Back then there was no such thing as thelemity, and people
built houses and machines sort of like they have in settlements today, but all
of that changed when the Valentines came.
The
reason we call them the Valentines is that the day they first attacked,
February 14 on the old Western Calendar, was called “Valentine’s Day”. We still
don’t know what the Valentines call themselves, because we’ve never been able
to talk to them. We don’t even know what they look like. People had all sorts
of different names for them early in the war, but “Valentine” is the one that
ended up being the most popular. It used to mean something totally different,
but not many people remember that now.
We
never saw them coming. All at once cities just started disappearing. A city
would be there, everything totally normal, and then it would be gone, nothing
but rubble and a cloud of dust. By the time we figured out we were under
attack, half the cities in the world had already been destroyed. We tried to
fight back, but the Valentines had thelemity, and our strongest weapons were
next to useless. They probably would have killed every single person on the
planet, except for one thing: It turned out we could use thelemity too.
About the Author
J. Patrick Black has worked as a bartender, a lifeguard, a small-town lawyer, a homebuilder, and a costumed theme park character, all while living a secret double life as a fiction writer. While fiction is now a profession, he still finds occasion to ply his other trades as well. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he likes to visit the ocean. NINTH CITY BURNING is his first (published) novel. He is at work on his next book.
(Bio via author's website)
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