Future Fiction #31: 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


Three exciting cover reveals this week!


A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.

Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.

Dead Astronauts (Borne #2) by Jeff VanderMeer. Releases in December 2019 from MCD Books (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). I have seen an animated version of this book cover, and it’s just as mind bending and headache inducing as you might think! I just about screamed when I saw this cover. Borne is one of my all time favorite books, and I’m beyond excited to read this sequel. Although reading the blurb, it sounds like a completely new story, so it might work as a standalone. I’m going to have to investigate that further. However, the “dead astronauts” of the title do appear in Borne, so there’s that connection. Can’t wait! Cover by Rodrigo Corral.


From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent’s half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. Releases in March 2020 from Knopf. I know many readers are probably waiting impatiently for Emily’s follow up to Station Eleven, and I was so happy when I saw this book! Even though the subject matter is completely different, and this isn’t science fiction at all, I will read anything this author writes.


“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.”

What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill … or else everyone dies.

Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead. As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something. And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

This thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending.

All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban. Releases in March 2020 from HarperTeen. I’ve had this on my TBR for a while, but when the cover popped up last week, I knew I had to feature it. First, I LOVE this cover. And the story sounds pretty twisty and suspenseful too! Cover illustration by Evgeni Koroliov.


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

Posted July 31, 2019 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 40 Comments

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40 responses to “Future Fiction #31: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. Great picks this week Tammy! I had seen The Glass House on EW earlier in the week and also thought it looked very different from her last book. I think I’ll check out Station Eleven first before I see if I want to try that one.

    • Tammy

      Station Eleven is so good, it’s kind of a “quiet” post apocalypse story, with awesome characters.

      • I think my issue with both Station Eleven and The Night Circus- is that I know I can appreciate them in the right mood, but I’m worried I won’t if I attempt them at the wrong time.

  2. More great picks this week. I’ve thought about reading Borne and even checked it out from the library but I don’t know. I didn’t do well with his Annihilation movie and reading this synopsis, this sounds just as trippy. The other two sound right up my alley though and when I saw the cover for The Glass Hotel this week I knew I’d be seeing it somewhere today more than likely.

  3. The new Emily St John Mandel sounds interesting, but perhaps not really my thing. Then again, following up Station Eleven must be so hard! I haven’t read Borne yet, but I loved that cover, and the follow up books looks totally trippy. Nice picks!

    • Tammy

      I’m a little leery about The Glass Hotel as well, I can’t get over how different it seems from Station Eleven…

  4. I am DROOLING over the cover of Dead Astronauts! And I, too, loved Borne… so if this is set in the same world – it will be awesome:))

  5. The Captain

    MUST get the glass hotel. I have loved the books I have read by her so far. Station Eleven is one of me favourite reads ever. Also the twisted secrets book sounds like neverwake. Have ye read that one?
    x The Captain

    • Tammy

      Me too! Station Eleven makes me cry just thinking about it. This sounds so different, but I’m willing to give it a chance. And no I haven’t read Neverwake, but it is on my list:-)

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