{"id":24844,"date":"2015-07-23T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:43:37","slug":"new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"New Science Fiction and Fantasy in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured new additions to DPL\u2019s Science Fiction and Fantasy collections! Click on the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"armada\"<\/a><\/td>\nArmada<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Ernest Cline – Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"scalzi\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe End of All Things<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by John Scalzi – The sequel to The Human Division<\/em> <\/a>finds Colonial Defense Forces lieutenant Harry Wilson investigating a series of alien attacks that are threatening Earth’s survivors and an increasingly under-sourced Colonial Union.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"ghost\"<\/a><\/td>\nGhost Fleet<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by P.W. Singer and August Cole – The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic\u2013drone strikes to old warships from the navy\u2019s \u201cghost fleet.\u201d Ultimately, victory will depend on blending the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"mirror\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Mirror Empire<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by\u00a0Kameron Hurley\u00a0– Forced into a mirror universe as soldiers overran her village, Lilia, the orphan of a blood witch, begins making unsettling discoveries about her past and the nature of the dark star Oma, which has not been seen for two thousand years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"22381326\"<\/a><\/td>\nHalf a War<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Joe Abercrombie – Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only words. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. The deep-cunning Father Yarvi has walked a long road from crippled slave to king\u2019s minister. He has made allies of old foes and stitched together an uneasy peace. But now the ruthless Grandmother Wexen has raised the greatest army since the elves made war on God, and put Bright Yilling at its head \u2013 a man who worships no god but Death. But when Mother War spreads her iron wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"moments\"<\/a><\/td>\nThree Moments of an Explosion: Stories<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by China Mieville – London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection many published here for the first time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"smug\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Good, the Bad and the Smug<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Tom Holt – Mordak isn’t bad, as far as goblin kings go, but when someone, or something, starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms it puts his rule into serious jeopardy. Suddenly he’s locked in an arms race with a species whose arms he once considered merely part of a calorie-controlled diet. Helped by an elf with a background in journalism and a masters degree in being really pleased with herself, Mordak sets out to discover what on earth (if indeed, that’s where he is) is going on. He knows that the truth is out there. If only he could remember where he put it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured new additions to DPL\u2019s Science Fiction and Fantasy collections! Click on the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases page. Armada by Ernest Cline – Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an[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":[10,1,8],"tags":[742,774],"class_list":["post-24844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6sI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844","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=24844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844\/revisions\/25007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}