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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.”\u003cbr\u003e —Victor LaValle, author of The \u003cem\u003eChangeling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e IT BEGAN WITH A COMET…\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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 debris field and the sky rained fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. 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