{"id":23858,"date":"2015-06-11T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23858"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:18:45","slug":"new-science-fiction-fantasy-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-science-fiction-fantasy-june\/","title":{"rendered":"New Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy &#8211; June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured new additions to DPL&#8217;s Science Fiction and Fantasy collections! Click on the book cover or the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/research\/upcoming-releases\/forthcoming-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Upcoming Releases<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 110px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24352\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index.jpg?resize=133%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1121381\" target=\"_blank\">The Vorrh<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by B. Caitling &#8211; Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast\u2014perhaps endless\u2014forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes \u00a0memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. Now, a renegade English soldier aims to be the first human to traverse its expanse.Listen to Alan Moore read his own introduction to the book here: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F202815800&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=0066cc\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 110px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index22.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24353\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index22.jpg?resize=133%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index22\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1118265\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vermilion<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>by Molly Tanzer &#8211; Gunslinging, chain smoking, Stetson-wearing Taoist psychopomp, Elouise &#8220;Lou&#8221; Merriwether might not be a normal 19-year-old, but she&#8217;s too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts, shades, and geung si to care much about that. It&#8217;s an important job, though most folks consider it downright spooky. Some have even accused Lou of being more comfortable with the dead than the living, and, well&#8230; they&#8217;re not wrong.Read Andrew Liptak &#8216;s review on io9 here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This action-packed book about a female ghostbuster will blow your mind <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/gwAmmWGtdL\">http:\/\/t.co\/gwAmmWGtdL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; io9 (@io9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/io9\/status\/605098011807641600\">May 31, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(caution, some spoilers.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index1.jpg?resize=131%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1122966\" target=\"_blank\">The Library at Mount Char<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Scott Hawkins &#8211; Carolyn and a dozen other children being raised by &#8220;Father,&#8221; a cruel man with mysterious powers, begin to think he might be God, so when he dies, they square off against each other to determine who will inherit his library, which they believe holds the power to all Creation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index2.jpg?resize=133%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1123348\" target=\"_blank\">The Border<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Robert McCammon &#8211; Two powerful, mysterious alien races are at war; Earth is caught in the middle, collateral damage. The planet is devastated, its people made nearly extinct. Those who have survived the catastrophic destruction caused by the alien war are succumbing to fallout from the battle, which is turning them into half-human creatures preying on those who are still human. Mankind seems doomed, but there is one small hope: a young boy who possesses powers that could save humanity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/indexQ91V0FBG.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/indexQ91V0FBG.jpg?resize=132%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"indexQ91V0FBG\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1123341\" target=\"_blank\">The Burning Dark<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Adam Christopher\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0Relegated to a Fleetspace station after saving an Earth of the distant future, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland navigates hostile workers and persistent malfunctions before receiving a mysterious warning from thousands of light-years away.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/indexAIB87K3C.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/indexAIB87K3C.jpg?resize=124%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"indexAIB87K3C\" width=\"124\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1123347\" target=\"_blank\">Desert Rising<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Grant Kelley &#8211; The Temple at Illian is the crown jewel of life in the Northern Territory. There, pledges are paired with <em>feli<\/em>, the giant sacred cats of the One god, and are instructed to serve the One&#8217;s four capricious deities. Yet Sulis, a young woman from the Southern Desert, has a different perspective\u2014one that just might be considered heresy, but that is catching on rather quickly \u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24362\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index3.jpg?resize=131%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1105138\" target=\"_blank\">Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Judd Trichter &#8211; Set in a near-future LA, a man falls in love with a beautiful android &#8212; but when she is kidnapped and sold piecemeal on the black market, he must track down her parts to put her back together.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index4.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/index4.jpg?resize=132%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1105139\" target=\"_blank\">City of Savages<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Lee Kelly &#8211; Living in Manhattan, which is now a prisoner-of-war camp, sisters Skyler and Phee set in motion a series of events that forces them to join a group of strangers on an escape mission through a city rife with cannibals and sadistic cults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured new additions to DPL&#8217;s Science Fiction and Fantasy collections! Click on the book cover or the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases page. The Vorrh by B. Caitling &#8211; Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast\u2014perhaps endless\u2014forest.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-science-fiction-fantasy-june\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3252,742,774],"class_list":["post-23858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions\/24366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}