Future Fiction #21: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

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


This week, a couple of Tor.com cover reveals (I feel like I can always count on them for something exciting!) and a cool sounding space opera, take a look:


There is no consent under capitalism 

Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents’ debts and buy your children’s future.

Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects—and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.

Docile by K.M. Szpara. Releases in March 2020 from Tor.com. Whoa next March! I didn’t realize how far away this was…nevertheless, I’m intrigued. This could be really scary, but that bold cover is really calling to me:-D


She was good at making friends.

Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don’t… tiny puppet-like friends: some made of wood, some of metal. They don’t entirely trust her, and she doesn’t entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works.

After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must reexamine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat.

Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Releases in November 2019 from Tor.com. I am sad I haven’t read any Tchaikovsky yet, which is criminal because he has so many books out right now, and I always hear everyone raving about him! I’m determined to read his Children of Time series by the end of the year, but in the meantime, this also sounds amazing.


First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera–The Princess Bride meets Princess Leia. 

Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she’d inherit her father’s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium.

Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world.

When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince.

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination–how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason. Releases in October 2019 from DAW Books. No reviews yet on Goodreads, so it’s hard to tell about this one, but I do love the “feminist fairy tale” idea, so I’m definitely keeping this on my watch list.


What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted May 22, 2019 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 45 Comments

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45 responses to “Future Fiction #21: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. Docile sounds interesting… It’s one of those books that will either be super intriguing or may end up just being suuuuper edgy and basically a dystopian 50 shades of grey 😀

    • Tammy

      The Made Things cover really makes you wonder what’s going on, I’m intrigued:-)

    • Tammy

      I’ve seen great reviews of Tchaikovsky on a bunch of blogs, so it’s just a matter of time for me to squeeze one of them in:-)

  2. Awesome picks Tammy! I still need to read Children of Time too- but I recently read Tchaikovsky’s Walking to Aldebaran and that was pretty good. Might not be a bad place to start since it’s short!

    I’m most excited about Docile though I think- it sounds like it might be more on the “literary” side of things (I hate that term so forgive me for using it). Anytime an author takes modern values/practices and smashes them to bits I’m pretty happy. I was sold with: There is no consent under capitalism.
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    • Tammy

      Hey I know what you mean. “Literary” really doesn’t bother me, but some people take it as kind of snobby. I actually like literary sci fi.

      • Sarah

        I just dislike the implication that literary is somehow “better” than commercial. (If it was wouldn’t literary also be commercial? It just doesn’t make sense!)

        A book being literary doesn’t make it important, or even good. It doesn’t make it bad either though.

        • Tammy

          Exactly, genre labels can be so weird. Ultimately I like what I like no matter what everyone wants to call it!

    • Tammy

      Me too, edgy covers are often the ones I gravitate towards, here’s hoping the story is just as edgy!

  3. I am a sucker for Tor releases and had to add Made Things to my wishlist. I’m also all over How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Universe. I need to schedule a sci-fi month somewhere down the road!

  4. Made Things sounds really interesting, I’ll have to keep my eye out for that one. Like you I’ve not yet read anything by Tchaikovsky, though I have an ebook copy of Children of Time and Redemption’s Blade.

  5. Sia

    I’ve had Docile on my radar for like a YEAR, but I hadn’t heard of the other two! How Rory Thorne especially sounds fantastic! Where do you discover all these amazing books?!

    • Tammy

      I LOVE looking through Edelweiss catalogs, I discover a lot of new books that way:-)

  6. I just added Docile this week too, from seeing it on Edelweiss. Anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky is also immediately on my reading list. And I just got a surprise ARC of How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse this week, I wouldn’t have known anything about it otherwise! Glad to know it’s fairy tale inspired.
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    • Tammy

      Oh cool, I saw Rory Thorne in an Edelweiss catalog, otherwise I’d never know about it.

  7. I love that Made Things cover – I would definitely like a copy of that and ‘Princess Bride meets Princess Leia’ – where do I sign up!
    Lynn 😀

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