Back / Home / Catalog / About the Library Other Realities: Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2016 New & Notable: Fantasy Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal Military Fantasy. As the Great War rages, Ginger Stuyvesant does her bit for the war effort as a medium with the Spirit Corps, which gathers military intelligence from recently deceased troops on the front lines. When her fiancé, intelligence officer Captain Ben Harford comes across evidence that there's a spy in the ranks, Ginger must locate this individual, lest they place the entire Spirit Corps -- and, potentially, the outcome of the war -- in jeopardy. This stand-alone novel by the author of the Glamourist series combines a suspenseful and intricate plot with well-researched and authentic period detail. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff Fantasy. After the Itreyan Republic executes her father, Mia Corvere, the sole survivor of her once-prominent family, decides to seek vengeance by becoming an assassin for the powerful Red Church. The training process is difficult and dangerous, but Mia's ability to speak to the shadows proves to be an asset as she battles her way to the top of a ruthless pecking order. This fast-paced series opener by the author of the Lotus Wars trilogy introduces a determined young heroine and an intricately wrought setting that draws its inspiration from the politics and culture of Renaissance Italy. The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville Fantasy. In 1941, a resistance group lead by Surrealist writer André Breton detonated an "S-bomb" in German-occupied Paris, which resulted in "manifs" -- surrealist images come to life. Ten years later, the Nazis are still in power and the city has been transformed beyond recognition into a terrifying phantasmagoria. When rebel Thibault meets Sam, a photographer whose goal is to capture images of the new Paris, he's drawn into a web of intrigue in which no one is who they seem and nothing is what it appears to be. The obelisk gate by N. K Jemisin ""Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS...FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood Duology The Killing Moon The Shadowed Sun The Broken Earth The Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gate" Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle "Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate. It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice. As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. She is taken in by two disenchanted lovers—dynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson — visited by Joanna’s previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. With Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires. Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Her new family thrives, even as they may be growing apart. But lingering in Lioness’s past is a dark secret — and even summer days must pass." New & Notable: Science Fiction The dark forest by Cixin Liu A continuation of a near-future trilogy follows humanity's desperate plan to outmaneuver alien invaders by placing all defensive strategies in the hands of four men, including an anonymous astrologer who is baffled by his new status. The heart goes last by Margaret Atwood Enrolling in a project that allows them to live in safe homes between alternate service months spent in prison, a homeless couple is threatened by troubling events stemming from the wife's involvement with another project member. By the award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-dalton An astronaut who discovers that Mission Control communications have gone silent and an aging scientist at a remote Arctic outpost who stays behind after an evacuation order are haunted by love, memory and regret as the world confronts an uncertain future. A first novel. Invasive by Chuck Wendig An FBI consultant who works to identify unexpected and cutting-edge threats embarks on a terrifying chase to a secret laboratory after a billionaire inventor is suspected of weaponizing the natural world in a very unnatural way. 25,000 first printing. Ninth City burning by J. Patrick Black Centuries after the Earth is thrown into a desperate war against a conquering alien race, deadly shifts in the enemy's tactics give way to the rise of an unlikely band of heroes. A first novel. Upcoming at the Library Monthly Local Author Spotlight newsletter Starting in October with local horror writers Chuck Hogan and Pete Kahle, the library will be releasing monthly Local Author Spotlights with author information and book recommendations. The spotlight will feature fantasy/sci-fi writer Diane Quin in November.   Interested? Sign up to receive the newsletter here:   https://goo.gl/forms/V4TtImmiFQbe32Hz1 If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Sharon Public Library at 781-784-1578, 11 North Main Street, Sharon, MA 02067