{"id":177,"date":"2020-09-02T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.247.69.53\/product\/import-placeholder-for-11737\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:52:56","slug":"the-golden-queen","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/product\/the-golden-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Queen, Book 1<\/p>\n<p>When GallenO\u2019Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job\u2014but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare\u2014the alien dronon, led by their golden queen. With his best friend, a genetically engineered talking bear named Orick, and his girlfriend Maggie, Gallen soon finds himself tangled in an interstellar war that he never knew existed, racing across a host of worlds, confronted by a future unlike any that he had ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchase On:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005SJR420\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=davidfa20-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B005SJR420&amp;linkId=a6cdef2a7ef590e8bc6ec7b3a918f130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-golden-queen-book-1-of-the-golden-queen-series-david-farland\/1107959558?ean=2940013355231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnes and Noble<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/the-golden-queen-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kobo<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0028MK7N8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=davidfa20-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B0028MK7N8&amp;linkId=58373ae98ddc45557bf464ea634b0f01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Farland&#8217;s Golden Queen trilogy is . . . the equivalent of Lord of the Rings in space. Farland is simply one of the best sci-fi and fantasy writers alive.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Winner Orson Scott Card<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[David Farland] can dispense the flash and dazzle of space opera while at the same time providing tough, real, sympathetic characters. . . . I enjoyed the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golden Queen\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a very special pleasure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2014Hugo and Nebula Winner<\/i><\/b><b> Roger Zelazny<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Queen, Book 1 When GallenO\u2019Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job\u2014but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare\u2014the alien dronon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[31],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.4 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Golden Queen - New York Times Bestselling Author David Farland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/product\/the-golden-queen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Golden Queen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Golden Queen, Book 1 When GallenO\u2019Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job\u2014but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare\u2014the alien dronon, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/product\/the-golden-queen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"New York Times Bestselling Author David Farland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-22T14:52:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the-golden-queen.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"197\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/product\/the-golden-queen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/davidfarland.com\/product\/the-golden-queen\/\",\"name\":\"The Golden Queen - 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