The Sky Vault, Benjamin Percy
The Sky Vault, Benjamin Percy
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The Sky Vault

Author: Benjamin Percy

Narrator: Michael David Axtell

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/12/2023


Synopsis

The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investigation of a mysterious weather phenomena in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a government secret buried since WWII.The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes…but only for a minute.When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be changed forever. Chuck Bridges, a local DJ and conspiracy theorist, was on board and later reported dead to his family, but not before proclaiming that something inside the clouds was speaking to him. Now his son, Theo, must chase down answers to the mystery his father unlocked. He’ll find himself at odds with Sophie Chen, an agent with a shadowy employer desperate to secure the black box from the airplane, as well as Rolf Wagner, a widowed sheriff investigating a series of increasingly strange and unsettling reports. And then there is Joanna Straub, a contractor reconstructing a top-secret government lab active during WWII and shuttered deep within the nearby White Mountains.The answer to the comet’s origin is about to be unveiled, and its impact on Earth is more treacherous and sublime than humanity could imagine. 

About Benjamin Percy

BENJAMIN PERCY has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He is the author of the novels The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding; three story collections; and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He lives in Minnesota with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh on November 01, 2023

First things first, I just love Ben Percy. When I moved to Minneapolis in 2015 I thought it was so cool to be in an area where there were authors published by the big publishing houses. Percy was one of the first authors I was exposed to during that time. He eventually took over writing Wolverine an......more

Goodreads review by Cole on July 26, 2024

*4.5* Book three of The Comet Cycle series did not disappoint. Instead of the Omnimetal-flesh hybrid of the first and the half man half plant from the second, we are greeted with horrors in the form of Lovecraftian monstrosities from another dimension. Definitely laid into the horror this time around......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on May 02, 2024

Thanks to NetGalley for an advance copy of this novel. This is the third entry in the Comet Trilogy by Benjamin Percy. The writing is consistent with the first two entries, but the plot sprawls a bit more across time, and that only opens more questions than it answers. If this is really the final bo......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 30, 2024

This series is not my favorite, so I question why I've now read all three of the books currently in it. Pros: I like how each installment in the series takes place in a distinct location with a (mostly) new set of characters and a new set of stakes; This book in particular explains why a lot of stuff......more

Goodreads review by Matt on July 27, 2023

Amazing finish to the Comet cycle. Read more like a Stephen King novel than the Yellowstone-esque drama of The Ninth Metal. I particularly enjoyed the eldritch horrors and usage of expository logs to tell a creepy yet satisfying tale. Percy also left a relatively open-end so I do hope there is one l......more