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"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years...His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is."

James Lee Burke, bestselling author of Feast Day of Fools, Heaven's Prisoners, and Neon Rain.

Praise

Just as Percy demonstrates how men manage danger, he’s equally adept at revealing the odd ways men also create it. Percy’s rendering of their psychological dance is masterful.

Orion

Listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 2010 by New West Magazine

The Wilding emerges as creative, unique and deeply thought-provoking. More so, it speaks of an author with many more tricks up his sleeve.

Bookpage

“There’s no other way to say it: Ben Percy has written a stunner, a genre-bending novel of suspense and terror but with Percy’s usual force-of-nature language and his deep insights into character. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough, nor could I put it down.” — Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Hell at the Breech and Poachers.

Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and Hell at the Breech

Selected as one of the “Best of the Northwest” for fall/winter 2010 by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

Benjamin Percy’s debut novel, The Wilding, reaches out and mauls you like a raging grizzly bear.

Ames Tribune

“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. It’s a sci-fi novel, a crime novel and a super-hero novel, too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read.” -Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling

Comet Cycle - LaValle

Percy’s writing in this novel is recklessly passionate, ferocious and fast-paced, but his thinking about these subjects is profound and carefully reasoned.

Hayden's Ferry Review

REFRESH, REFRESH is full of bravery and bravado, and it fairly crackles with life. These stories mark the beginning of what is bound to be a long and brilliant career for Benjamin Percy. Welcome him.

Ann Patchett, New York Times-bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Author, Truth and Beauty, Bel Cantoand The Magician's Assistant

Chosen by the Powells Bookstore chain for their “Indiespensible” Books Subscription Club

There are a hundred ways to feel frightened and lost in a forest, and the excellent, savvy Benjamin Percy can evoke them all. THE WILDING, a brilliant literary novel that feels at times almost like Geoffrey Household’s classic Rogue Male, seems to have been written on his vibrating nerve-endings. This book is filled with dread, sadness, tension and a tireless vision of mankind’s thoughtless devastation of an ancient and more authentic way of life. It is almost impossible to put down. James Dicke… Read more

Peter Straub, bestselling author, Ghost Story, A Dark Matterand Shadowland

The Wilding wraps its arms around some big themes: the vanishing wilderness, a dissolving marriage, and the shell-shocked re-adjustment to domestic life after combat. It’s a lot to pack into 250 pages, but Percy manages to do it with remarkable ease.

Barnes and Noble

THE DARK NET kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. Percy reveals an upgraded, rebooted battle between good versus evil — a fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read.

Chuck Wendig, NYT bestselling author of Blackbirds and Zer0es

“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 award-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Comet Cycle - James

The Wilding is an urgent and haunting look at the darker side of our nature and at our often futile attempts to control and manage the natural world.

Kansas City Star

Refresh, Refresh is a completely impressive collection of short fiction by one of our most accomplished younger writers. Benjamin Percy moves instinctively toward the molten center of contemporary writing, the place where genre fiction, in this case horror, overflows its boundaries and becomes something dark and grand and percipient. These stories contain a brutal power and are radiant with pain — only a writer of surpassing honesty and directness could lead us here. Ben Percy’s feet are firmly… Read more

Peter Straub, New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning Author, In the Night Room, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Ghost Storyand Koko

“Wildly entertaining and highly original melange of northern Minnesota lore and slam-bang near-future SF action…Percy’s dead-on local color, strong central characters, and well integrated flashbacks into the making of a modern samurai will delight and entertain both comics fans and serious science fiction readers. This is an impressive series starter.” –Publishers Weekly starred review

Comet Cycle - PW

Red Moon is a serious, politically symbolic novel – a literary novel about lycanthropes. If George Orwell had imagined a future where the werewolf population had grown to the degree that they were colonized and drugged, this terrifying novel might be it.

John Irving, bestselling author, Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meanyand The World According to Garp

There’s no other way to say it: Ben Percy has written a stunner, a genre-bending novel of suspense and terror but with Percy’s usual force-of-nature language and his deep insights into character. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough, nor could I put it down.

Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Hell at the Breech and Poachers.

Percy is very good at wreaking havoc with his many interconnected plots and then remaking, metaphorically and literally. He is also a courageous realistic who presents unpalatable truths.

Observer-Dispatch

Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding is a tour de force meditation and treatise on the nature of violence, the violence of nature, man in the wild, and the wild in man—cleverly disguised as a page-turning adventure. Not just a “must” read, but a need read, this book is timely, terrifying, terrific.

Antonya Nelson, author, In the LandMen and Female Trouble

Chosen as “Book of the Week” at iBooks (10/27/10-11/2/10)

If it’s a thriller you’re after, The Wilding doesn’t disappoint, taking a story as old as the woods and fashioning it into something a bit sleeker and more psychological — a bit closer to where we live.

Los Angeles Times

A Library Media Connection ‘Best of the Best’ for 2009

2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction

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