Future Fiction #109 – 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

A rather dark trio of upcoming Fall releases, take a look:

From holy cup comes holy light;

The faithful hands sets world aright.

And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,

Mere man shall end this endless night.

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.

Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order couldn’t stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.

Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope:

The Holy Grail.

Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire #1) by Jay Kristoff. Releases in September 2021 from Harper Voyager UK/St. Martin’s Press. OK OK this isn’t the U.S. cover, but I had to share it today, because look at it! This is the UK/Australian cover and I’ll probably be featuring this book again when the U.S. cover is revealed. I’m very excited for Kristoff’s next series!

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies.

Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

From the Neck Up by Aliya Whiteley. Releases in September 2021 from Titan Books. I’m becoming more of an Aliya Whiteley fan with every book of hers I read. She’s really busy these days too! She has another book coming out this year called Skyward Inn, and an older book of hers called The Loosening Skin is being reprinted by Titan Books as well. I’m very curious about this one.

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him.

By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling. Releases in October 2021 from St. Martin’s Press. Now I’ll admit, I haven’t had the best luck with Starling’s books. I DNF’d her last novella and I didn’t care much for The Luminous Dead (although lots of readers loved it). But I just have to give this a try because Gothic! Also comparisons to Rebecca and Crimson Peak have me very curious. And I love this cover, isn’t it creepy?

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

Posted January 27, 2021 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 52 Comments

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52 responses to “Future Fiction #109 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

  2. Silvia

    It looks like I need to put my hands on Empire of the Vampire! And if I can be completely honest, not just because of the sound of it, but for that cover as well <3

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  3. sjhigbee

    The cover for the Jay Kristoff book is stunning – but it sounds rather dark and I’m not up for that kind of reading just now… But it goes on the growing pile of To Be Read When I Can Cope! Thank you for sharing, Tammy:))

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  4. todd

    I had hoped to have already tried the Nevernight series, but haven’t gotten to it yet. And I kind of like the cover for The Death of Jane Lawrence. Hands stitching themselves together. I’m currently listening to an audiobook of Rebecca. I guess I haven’t gotten far enough in yet because not much interesting has happened. I like the language but I’m hoping something more happens in the story before much longer.

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  14. Literary Feline

    I have not read anything by Aliya Whiteley, but the description of From the Neck Up has me wanting to give her work a try. I hope you enjoy all three of these when you read them, Tammy!

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  20. Lex @ Lexlingua

    I remember going on a vampire spree after Twilight, and soon it became an overdose. Ever since then have shunned vampire books, which is a pity because I’ve heard Kristoff is great. As for The Death of Jane Lawrence — I loved Crimson Peak, and the blurb gives off all kinds of Bluebeard’s Room vibes, so will keep an eye out for this one. ~ Lex

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    • Tammy

      I feel like Kristoff is going to do something different with the vampire trope. I’m very curious:-)

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  22. Barb @ Booker T's Farm

    I figured I would be seeing a lot of the Kristoff book this week. While that cover is stunning, I don’t know if it’s what I expected or maybe even wanted. That being said, I am dying to read it. I also like the sounds of The Death of Jane Lawrence. Great picks as always. Sorry it took so long to visit.

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  26. Sammie @ The Bookwyrm's Den

    I absolutely CANNOT WAIT for Empire of the Vampire! *flails* And if the US cover isn’t at least close to being that gorgeous, I will riot. RIOT, you hear me?! *gets torches and pitchforks ready* Oooh, I’m loving the sound of The Death of Jane Lawrence, too!

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  27. JonBob

    Yes! More gothic horror! The genre I didn’t know I needed until I read Jeannette Ng’s Under the Pendulum Sun and now I can’t get enough of.

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