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Red Moon: A Novel, by Benjamin Percy
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"A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it."--Stephen KingThey live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.They change.When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy. So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.
Red Moon: A Novel, by Benjamin Percy - Amazon Sales Rank: #512808 in Books
- Brand: Percy, Benjamin
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.50" w x 4.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 688 pages
Red Moon: A Novel, by Benjamin Percy Amazon.com Review A Conversation with Ben Percy
Peter Straub is the author of such classics as Ghost Story, The Talisman (with Stephen King), and most recently A Dark Matter. His daughter Emma Straub is author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures.
Peter: Ben, Red Moon exists on the borderlands--beyond genre, but clearly playing in the world of horror and thrillers. Was this your intention when you started to write the novel?
Ben: I grew up on genre. Reading westerns, sci-fi, fantasy, spy thrillers. Reading horror especially. Your novels had a profound impact on me. So did the work of Stephen King and Robert R. McCammon and Anne Rice and Dan Simmons. When I took my first creative writing workshop as an undergrad, I felt so confused and affronted when the instructor said genre would be forbidden. I threw up my hand and very earnestly asked, "But what else is there?"
That semester, I fell in love with "literary" writers like Sherman Alexie and Alice Munro and Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver, but I never fell out of love with "genre." In fact, I missed its compulsive readability. I put "literary" and "genre" in quotation marks, because I'm getting more and more irritated with the designations, the need everyone feels to pin labels and distinguish one kind of story from another. If you look at Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove or Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or your very own Ghost Story, they are neither fish nor fowl, both literary and genre. Pretty sentences, unforgettable characters, subterranean themes, rip-roaring plots. In writing Red Moon I was attempting to follow your tracks in the mud. To write a novel that was both thought provoking, artfully constructed, and thrilling.
Emma: Red Moon taps into what we fear now--physically, politically, and personally. How did you come up with the idea of transporting the werewolf myth to America's war on terror?
Ben: Some of the most resonant, lasting horror stories are those that channel cultural unease. Consider Frankenstein as a prime example. The way the creature embodies all the anxieties brought on by the Industrial Revolution: the fear of science and technology, of man playing God. The Red Scare gave rise to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Cold War anxieties are the platform for The Dead Zone. I was thinking about this--what we fear now--when I sat down to write Red Moon.
Peter: In the novel, you use the term "lycan" instead on "werewolf." What does the word "lycan" evoke for you that the classic word does not?
Ben: Werewolves have a rich mythology, and I wanted to honor that tradition while making it new, making it my own. I think this is why Justin Cronin uses the term virals (instead of vampires) in The Passage and why Robert Kirkman calls them walkers (instead of zombies) in The Walking Dead.
So lycan--short for lycanthropy, the psychological condition that makes you believe you can transform into a wolf--is one small sleight of hand that hints at the larger sorcery of the novel. My lycans are not full-moon howlers. They are infected with lobos, an animal-borne pathogen. Prions (the basis of Mad Cow and Chronic Wasting disease) are misfolded proteins that target the brain--and target in this novel rage and sexual impulse. I interviewed researchers at the USDA and Iowa State University to figure out the slippery science of this condition and create a believable horror.
Peter: The plot of Red Moon follows three interlocking strands and moves at a breakneck pace, often jumping ahead in time and letting the reader play catch up. Why did you structure the novel this way?
Ben: I’ve always loved epic, sweeping novels. Everything from TH White’s The Once and Future King to Stephen King’s The Stand to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Red Moon is a hefty book: it follows many characters over many years in many different places. The trick, when orchestrating something so complicated, is grabbing the reader’s attention and never letting go.
Long before I begin writing, I rip a long sheet of paper from my children's art easel and hang it from my office wall and begin to brainstorm. I sketch out plot points. I draw and build histories and emotional arcs for characters. I know that some writers prefer a more organic process, but my own feeling is, you don’t build a cathedral without a set of blueprints.
Over the top of the blueprint I sketch out a kind of cardiogram or seismograph in order to understand the spikes and dips in tension. I often move plot points around--sometimes withholding information for several chapters--in order to create different layers of tension and strategically organize explosive and revelatory moments.
Emma: My dad and I write very different types of books. Why do you think Red Moon appeals to both of us? Do you think there are some kinds of stories that appeal to all of us? Is it that werewolves, no matter how advanced or violent, have a whiff of our childhood fairytales?
Ben: Whiff of childhood fairytales. I like that. If there is ever a Red Moon perfume, instead of eau de toilette, I think it should be labeled as whiff of werewolf.
In Red Moon, I explore the evil hidden with all of us and within society. The werewolf myth resonates because we have all--as a result of rage or exhaustion or drugs or alcohol--come to regret our behavior the next morning. This is the story of Jekyll and Hyde, the story of the Incredible Hulk, an unleashed id, the wildness crouched inside all of us. If only bad guys all looked like Darth Vader. Instead the sex offender, the serial killer, the terrorist could be the guy who lives next door, and that's scary as hell, the realization that we're all different degrees of hairy on the inside.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, May 2013: On its surface, Red Moon is a book about werewolves, providing an alternate history behind the origins and growth of the werewolf population. At its core, however, this strikingly imaginative and terrifically detailed fantasy is about much more than werewolves. Dig deeper, and it operates on two very potent levels. It's an allegory that tears down the wall between fantasy and reality, using a creature to represent an unspecified people struggling for equal rights (perhaps of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disease, disability). It is also a reminder of our imperfect history, a snapshot of our volatile present, and a warning of a potentially dark future--where fear begets prejudice and prejudice begets policy. Among the werewolves, there are the amicable, the righteous, and the extremist. Likewise there are humans who coexist with their lycan neighbors, some of them peaceful, some of them oppressive. In bringing them all together, Percy creates a political parable that doesn't lecture, but equips us with the ability to examine the quagmire of cultural conflict from a safe, fictional distance. --Robin A. Rothman
From Booklist *Starred Review* Doing for werewolves what Justin Cronin’s The Passage (2010) did for vampires, this literary horror novel is set in an alternate version of the present day. Everything is pretty much the same, except for one teensy difference: werewolves—or lycans, as Percy calls them—aren’t the stuff of mythology. They’re real, and they’ve existed for centuries: ordinary men and women afflicted with an unusual (and seemingly incurable) disease, lobos, which turns them into another sort of life-form altogether. Lycans and humans have established an uneasy peace, but, as the book opens, lycan terrorists seem determined to spark a bloody war. Percy focuses on a trio of engaging and beautifully drawn characters: Patrick, a boy who survives one of the terrorist attacks; Claire, a girl whose family is murdered for reasons she doesn’t clearly understand; and Chase, a governor whose aggressively anti-lycan views are challenged in a tragically ironic way. Parallels to the U.S. in the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks are clear and deliberate, but it’s the way the author, following in the footsteps of such writers as Glen Duncan (in The Last Werewolf, 2011), humanizes the werewolf, turning him from snarling beast into a creature for whom we feel compassion and affection, that makes the book such a splendid read. Although the novel tells a self-contained story, there is plenty of room for a sequel, which would be most welcome. --David Pitt
Review "Percy's latest novel is a smart, action-packed political thriller. . . . It's a high-wire literary act that the author pulls off with panache."―Entertainment Weekly's "Must List""It would be tempting, or at least easier, to put Percy's book in the werewolf subgenre, but Red Moon is much more than that. Dark, bloody, violent, relentlessly grounded in the post-9/11 world and the Pacific Northwest, not without humor but sparing in its application, Red Moon could well serve as the Heart of Darkness of a new, more anxious generation, one that must somehow come to terms with the enemies, real or perceived, who live quietly among us."―The Oregonian"Smart and brisk and often poetic...Percy knows how to draw intense, dramatic scenes as the world goes feral."―Ron Charles, Washington Post"Terrifying and tense."―Chicago Tribune"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years. His degree of craft and natural talent are extraordinary; his ear for language is absolutely perfect. 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, author of Feast Day of Fools"Percy has a lusty flair for describing destruction. . . . When Claire and Patrick take the field, the book lights up, and the writing possesses a resonant, emotional honesty. . . . The story is imaginative and lots of fun, and it will deservedly charm many readers."―Justin Cronin, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)"[A] stunning new read."―O, The Oprah Magazine"An intelligent, topical thriller."―Los Angeles Times"A powerfully written alternative history."―Tampa Bay Times"Don't mistake this book for anything less than a great literary achievement; Red Moon is, in all likelihood, the most well-written werewolf novel you will come across."―New York Observer"Spellbinding . . . RED MOON is a cross between Stephen King and the Michael Chabon of The Yiddish Policeman's Union . . . . A fat, multilayered page-turner. . . . If you haven't read Percy, get started."―Book Page"Audaciously complex and hauntingly composed. . . . [Percy] ballasts his nightmare with a poet's more natural magic. . . . Fear, this book reminds us, is a beast that's always hungry."―Christian Science Monitor"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, author of In One Person"Atmospheric . . . While some writers of paranormal novels wrap their creatures in romance and comic subplots, Percy has chosen a darker, more literary path. Red Moon is a morality tale cloaked in fur, fangs and social injustice. Werewolves are the monsters in the story, but the bête noire is humanity's moral decline."―USA Today"...a terrifically hairy werewolf novel."―Vanity Fair
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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful. An Original Literary Werewolf Tale By Miss Bonnie 'Plagues don't just kill people - and that's what lobos is, a plague - they kill humanity.'Red Moon deals with an alternate world history, one where lycans are real and all are aware of their existence. The story is told from several different points-of-view and spans several years. At its core, Red Moon is about xenophobia, racial discrimination and acts of terrorism, a subject that can be applied to today's world even when you remove the lycan factor. It touches on several genres, but ends up ultimately being a blend of horror and dystopian.With the multiple story lines, various points of view and length of elapsed time from the first to final page, Red Moon seemed like an attempt to write the lycan/werewolf version of 'The Twelve'; key word attempt. The writing ended up being excessively descriptive and lacked a flow which left it feeling forced, like the author was attempting to incorporate poetry but resulted in an overall clunky feel. For example:"He feels the snow of the Republic weighing him down and he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation between the living and the dead, a child born with a mud wasp's nest for a heart and its eyes already pocketed with dust, ready to be clapped into a box and dropped down a hole."The strange way things were described:"She strikes a match and drops it on the burner and a blue flare the size of a child foomps to life[...]""She is sitting on a rock the size of a buffalo skull [...]""He imagines what his blood would taste like. Like cherry cough syrup."Then the occasional line(s) that caused some eye-rolling:'He hears a dripping and looks down to see the blood pooling from the open door. The blood of Trevor, uncorked by a bullet. It melts the snow into a red slushy pattern that reminds him of those Rorschach inkblot tests. What does he see? The fate that awaits him if he does not act.'and'He consults his GPS one more time before finding the center and parking his bike on the wrong side of the street in front of a fire hydrant. Sometimes it feels good to be so wrong.'And these lines just irritated me:'A black man named Jessie with half his teeth missing.''The black man, Jessie, says, "Why are you telling him that?"''The black man's chest is rising and falling with the rhythms of sleep.'The first sentence is the initial introduction of Jessie and describing him as such isn't an issue. It's the subsequent sentences that irritated me. Simply calling him Jessie would've been perfectly fine.I will give Percy major credit, his evident research worked magnificently in bringing this alternate world to life and making the lycans existence all the more real.'All known prion diseases affect the brain and neural tissue, creating vasuoles in the nerve fibers that eventually lesion and degenerate into spongiform encephalopathy.'Detailed scientific explanations are given throughout the story and while they weren't always easy to interpret (and caused extensive Google searching) it was refreshing to see some legitimate research being put into the world-building.The ending is not tied up nicely with a pretty little bow, but I actually preferred the open to interpretation ending and I don't usually. Despite this, I still believe Red Moon to be a standalone novel. In my opinion the author was trying to convey the situation as one that doesn't ever truly end, that it's an ongoing problem and doesn't have an easy solution. I think giving it the 'perfect ending' would have been far too unrealistic. Setting aside my issue with the excessive descriptive writing style, I still really enjoyed the physics of the story. Benjamin Percy is definitely an author with a talent for storytelling.Recommended for fans of The Passage by Justin Cronin and The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (although both are vampire novels) and readers looking for a literary story with paranormal elements.
66 of 74 people found the following review helpful. An original thriller By Ferdy This is as much a social and political drama as it is a thriller. It's a story of a world divided and how the oppressed members of society are rebelling in order to claim their rights. It's a familiar story of struggle but the author has made it original by making the story not about race or religion but about the very definition of humanity. In this novel, society is divided based on whether one is a lycan (werewolf) or not. Lycans are controlled through being forced to take mind altering drugs. Despite the attempts at government control, they are still discriminated against and subjected to constant brutality by their fellow citizens. In retaliation, an underground revolution is beginning. The lycans want to have control over their own lives. In order to gain the public's attention, they resort to violence in the form of hijacking planes or bombings at public gatherings.The story is told basically told through the eyes of two young people, Patrick and Claire. Patrick is the sole survivor on a flight that is hijacked by a lycan on a killing rampage. Claire is the daughter of a militant lycan who watches as her family is slaughtered by government agents. Through their stories you get the perspective from both sides.The story is action packed and the author really knows how to keep you reading to find out what happens after a chapter's cliff hanger ending. Usually, in novels like this, there is an obvious good guy and bad guy. That isn't the case with this book. You are shown the good and bad in both sides so you understand why the characters act and react in the way that they do so it's hard to judge who's right or wrong in the big picture. My only criticim is that I felt like the story got a bit long winded in some spots and I would have liked to see a little more interaction between Patrick and Claire. Overall, though, this author has given us a good, intellectual thriller that includes werewolves. That is not something that can be said in the same sentence very often. I recommend it for fans of Straub and King.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Does convey an epic scope, but one-dimensional and derivative By Nathan Webster I completely see why this book got good reviews and some solid buzz - Percy tries very hard, puts a lot of characters in motion, is an 'epic' in the good sense of the word - after all, the future of humanity is at stake. The narrative sprawls across the planet, and there are plenty of shades of grey within the good and bad characters. It has mammoth dramatic flourishes and a few unexpected events - Percy isn't afraid to make big things happen.But other than a few deviations, the characters are one-dimensional, and I've seen all of them represented in fiction before - the evil politician from The Dead Zone, the 'mutant scare' from the 1980s X-Men, the young lovers a la Twilight, and the literary take on werewolves follows in the path of Justin Cronin's Passage trilogy - it's all very well put together to be an unsurprising best seller. A summer beach reader will like it because for the most part it is very familiar and comfortable.The 9/11 comparison is obvious and overdone. Since 9/11 did lead to two wars, you can't really say he exaggerated anything, but he certainly bludgeons the reader with his "us versus them" imagery. But like I said, I think it was more inspired by the X-Men comics of the 1980s than anything else.Percy is a decent writer as far putting his plot in motion, but there are numerous places where details either don't match up, or are simply impossible or very unlikely.For example, in the otherwise exciting opening scene where a werewolf 'revolutionary' massacres a planeload of people, one character survives. Percy has him look over his shoulder toward the restroom from his window seat in Row 15 - well, a 737 has 38 rows, and if you've ever tried to crane your neck to look behind you on a plane, you can't really see anything, much less people standing at the lavatory line at the back of the plane. So Percy's packed in lots of details, but he didn't tie it all together - so if you give his scenario any thought at all, it falls apart. There are a couple other logistical flaws with the scene too.Obviously, that's total nitpicking - I am aware of that. But he chose this very realistic, detail-oriented structure, instead of being more general. So if you're going to do that, you can't leave those gaps. And that's the first scene - granted, that put a bad feeling in my mind and def. colored my future perception.Another reviewer noted that Muslims = Lycans is the wrong metaphor, because the lycans were involuntarily infected or created. It's not a belief system or religion. The better comparison a reader might have in mind might be the fear of AIDS/HIV in the late 1980s, when people were legitimately hounded out of schools and towns.It's not a bad book on the surface, especially if you're a reader that can easily overlook problems like those above. But I expected more, and I simply didn't enjoy it. I got through it, I was occasionally entertained, but I rolled my eyes plenty of times at the simplistic characters and melodramatic plot lines.
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