Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
I went hunting on Edelweiss catalogs for this week’s Future Fiction picks, take a look:
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.
In the Before, when the government didn’t prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce’s connection to the world–her music, her purpose–is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.
Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery–no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she’ll have to do something she’s never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won’t be enough.
A Song For a New Day by Sarah Pinsker. Releases in September 2019 from Berkley. I can’t really tell from this blurb whether I’m going to love this or not, but I am intrigued. I love stories that revolve around music and musicians, and I adore this cover. Plus I’ve always wanted to read something by Pinsker, and I think this might be a good place to start.
A biker and a cowboy must stop the apocalypse in the first book of the Blood and Bones western urban fantasy series.
‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.’ —Baudelaire
He is, after all, the master of lies.
But is it lies when a man comes calling and says the End of Days is nearing? That you must do everything within your power to stop it? Even when you have no powers. You are, after all, just a human.Or do you have no powers? Are you just a human? And what the hell are you supposed to do about preventing hell-on-earth when you’re fresh out of prison, a biker ex-con who can’t even vote?
But the man who bears the message, the mission, is not a stranger shouting on a street corner while hoisting a sign promising death and damnation. He is someone you’ve known since boyhood, someone you trust implicitly. Someone who has never, ever lied to you. He’s Grandaddy.
But who is he really? And who are you? Are you truly a weapon meant to be wielded against the devil’s return? Against the End Times. The End of Days. Apocalypse and Armageddon.
Demons, Grandaddy says, are now loosed upon the earth in the first spasms of a most unholy war. Demons inhabit and make real the beasts and characters of fiction, folklore, fairytales. Gods and goddesses walk the earth. The minotaur. Murderers. A horseman without his head. Myth becomes reality. Legends—and lies—are truths.
And maybe the man you’ve always trusted isn’t entirely human.
Life and Limb (Blood and Bone Book #1) by Jennifer Roberson. Releases in November 2019 from DAW Books. That’s a pretty long blurb but it doesn’t really tell you much! However, I cannot ignore the words “A biker and a cowboy must stop the apocalypse.” That is all:-D
In the second novel in a thrilling Cold War fantasy series, American magician Karen O’Neil travels to Cuba to find a missing young girl intertwined with a new kind of magic that threatens to upend the balance of power of the whole world.
AFTER THE WALL FELL, NOTHING COULD BE THE SAME.
In Cold War Berlin, American magician Karen O’Neil defeated the ghosts of Germany’s past and sealed the breach that threatened the whole world, but in doing so she learned a terrible truth: Magic cannot be trusted.
Despite her wariness of the new and growing powers she gained in Germany, Karen agrees to help an old friend and is drawn to Cuba, a world of opulence run by a corrupt government and ruthless, magic-obsessed mobsters.
In Havana, while the fires of revolution kindle, Karen searches for a missing girl whose fate is intertwined with impossible and deadly magic. And she knows she’s being watched; both the Soviets and the CIA have designs on this island paradise, and their eyes are everywhere. But spies and rebels aren’t the only dangers hiding in Havana’s long shadows, and Karen will learn that the future can be just as dangerous as the past.
MANKIND WILL ALWAYS FIND NEW WAYS TO CREATE MONSTERS.
Revolution (Cold War Magic #2) by W.L. Goodwater. Releases in November 2019 from Ace Books. Last year I enjoyed the first book in this series, Breach, even though I had a few issues with the pacing. But that’s not enough to stop me from reading the sequel!
I had the exact same thoughts as you upon reading the blurb for Life and Limb lol. I’m totally intrigued by that first line, but then the rest of the blurb really doesn’t give you much info! Sounds like it could be great though.
I’m hoping, I really do want to read it:-)
Oh wow- all of these sound amazing! I especially love the sound of Life and Limb.
I agree, Life and Limb could be really good. I’m so curious because I’ve never heard of this author before.
All of these are new to me and I’m picking up a vibe from all of the covers.
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I love all these covers, they definitely make me want to grab all of these!
I think Life and Limb is my favorite from these. You can check out my Wednesday post in the link below!
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I’m excited for Life and Limb as well:-)
Life and Limb sounds pretty interesting! 🙂
It does sound interesting, I hope it’s good:-)
Once again I’m sunk. However, I already had A Song for a New Day on my wishlist and almost featured it myself this week. But Life and Limb blew it out of the water. Gotta have that one! Also, I saw the draft for the next Donovan book (thanks for the facebook group heads up) and I hope it doesn’t change too much because I love it!
I’m glad you joined that group, I was surprised to see the cover for the next book, and it looks like it’s a finished cover. I figure they might work on the title font a little, but other than that it fits right in with the series:-)
Ok – biker and cowboy totally sold me!
I know, I just love that image!
Love these choices, as always, Tammy! I was offered the Pinksker book today and it made me instantly think of you. I’m really intrigued by it.
Oh cool, I’m probably going to request it as well:-)
Oh, I remember your review for Breach! I never did get around to reading that but the sequel sounds great.
I definitely want to try the sequel, hopefully the pacing will be better.
Life and Limb sounds as if it could be awesome or absolutely dreadful… I hope it’s the former – thank you for sharing these intriguing reads, Tammy:)
Ha ha, I know what you mean. The blurb is…odd??
I added A Song for a New Day to the TBR sometime recently, it sounds like fun! And I hadn’t heard of Life and Limb yet, so just added that as well!
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There are just too many amazing-sounding books coming out!!!
A biker and a cowboy must stop the apocalypse? That book is calling to me very loudly, lol.
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I know, right? It’s just crazy enough to work:-)
Pinsker is the only book I’m familiar with, but I’m definitely adding the others to my watch list! Especially the cowboy and biker one 😀
Yeah, I need to read that one just to see what the author does with a cowboy and biker in the same story!
Damn, you found some cool stuff again! I’m particularly eyeing up the music sci-fi one 😀
I know, that cover is one of my favorites:-)
I’m so excited for Sarah’s novel! She is also super cool in person–she runs the SFWA tent at our book festival every year so I’ve met her a couple of times. Anyway, she’s also a musician so I’m sure she’s brought a lot of that to this story.
Ah, I left a comment and the internet ate it. Anywho, really looking forward to Sarah’s book as well!
How on earth do you find all these books – you’re breaking my TBR!
Lynn 😀