Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black

I was contacted by Penguin a few weeks back to tell me about an upcoming novel called  Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black. It sounded so exciting I stuck it on my wishlist, so I wanted to tell you about it too!

Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black

Release Date: 2016-09-06

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.

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What people are saying about Ninth City Burning:

“Grabbed my attention from the first page—fresh and un-put-downable. An intriguing cocktail of science fiction, fantasy, and military adventure stirred into something new and satisfying.”

—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched

“A finely crafted and original science-fantasy epic full of wonder and spectacle. Highly recommended.”

—Anthony Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Waking Fire
“Ninth City Burning is an intense, complex, engrossing story, a tale of multiple lives intersecting…Fans of both fantasy and science-fiction will want to keep an eye out for the next, and the next… “

—Jean Johnson, national bestselling author of The Terrans

About the author:

J. Patrick Black has worked as a bartender, 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 his 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 novel.

Find out more about J. Patrick Black online at www.jpatrickblack.com

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