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
So last week was awful. I ended up deleting a post for the first time ever in eight years of blogging. You may have caught my FF #13 before I took it down. I don’t want to go into it too much, but I guess there was a new cover up on Edelweiss that wasn’t supposed to be there, and I featured it as one of my FF picks. The publisher caught wind of my post and asked me to take it down, because the cover hadn’t “officially” been revealed. Wow, I felt terrible! I have always believed that if a book cover is on the internet, especially on a site like Goodreads or Edelweiss, it’s OK to post it. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, am I alone in thinking that? (on another note, last week was FF #13 and I guess it turned out to be bad luck. I’m skipping it and moving on to #14!)
But anyway, on to today’s picks, which I’m very excited about, take a look:
The infamous eleventh-century warrior Hexen Sabbath is plucked from death and certain damnation by a being claiming to be an angel of the Lord, and finds himself dropped into contemporary Manhattan with no clothes, no weapons, no resources, and one mission—to track down and kill the living personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins before they bring about Armageddon.
With time running out and his only ally a destitute art gallery owner, Sabbath must fight his way through New York’s elite and challenge the world’s most powerful man, or an eternity of suffering will be his, and our, only reward.
Sabbath by Nick Mamatas. Releases in November 2019 from Tor Books. I’ve read a couple of Mamatas’ books and really enjoyed them. This sounds crazy, and I am there for it!
The Rosewater Redemption concludes the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction’s most engaging new voices.
Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn’t everything its citizens were expecting.The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Nigeria isn’t willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. And the city’s alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends…
Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity’s last line of defense.
The Rosewater Redemption (Wormwood Trilogy #3) by Tade Thompson. Releases in October 2019 from Orbit Books. I just read The Rosewater Insurrection and loved it, and it’s cool that the third book is coming out so quickly. Can’t wait!
A strikingly original Icelandic debut set in a strangely familiar alternate Reykjavik where wild and industrialised magic meet.
Perfect for fans of contemporary fantasy in the style of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians or China Mieville’s The City & The City
Sæmundur the Mad, addict and sorcerer, has been expelled from the magical university, Svartiskóli, and can no longer study galdur, an esoteric source of magic. Obsessed with proving his peers wrong, he will stop at nothing to gain absolute power and knowledge, especially of that which is long forbidden.
Garún is an outcast: half-human, half-huldufólk, her very existence is a violation of dimensional boundaries, the ultimate taboo. A militant revolutionary and graffiti artist, recklessly dismissive of the status quo, she will do anything to achieve a just society, including spark a revolution. Even if she has to do it alone.
This is a tale of revolution set in a twisted version of Reykjavik fuelled by industrialised magic and populated by humans, interdimensional exiles, otherworldly creatures, psychoactive graffiti and demonic familiars.
Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson. Releases in July 2019 from Gollancz. It’s unusual for me to feature a “UK only” book, but I just can’t stop looking at this cover, and I want to read this so badly! I don’t see any US publishing information on Goodreads yet, but UK folks will get to read this soon. I’ll probably head over to The Book Depository and buy my own copy!
I would assume it was okay, yes. And I wouldn’t feel too bad about it after I deleted it.
Yeah, I did delete it as soon as I was able (I was at work when all this happened), and the publisher actually offered me a review copy of the book when they become available, so I guess it wasn’t all bad!
Shadows of the Short Days sounds pretty awesome. I really need to catch up on Rosewater.
Yeah, the third Rosewater will be out so quickly, right?
Yeah- they were all three released within a single year. If I’d known they were coming out so quickly I would have prioritized them more.
I always thought if the covers were available on such sites then you’d be okay to post them tbh. I have noticed the odd time when I’ve seen a book on a site – and then I’ve double checked with GR – that the cover wasn’t on both so I’ve stayed clear of those titles but you’ve taken the post down so don’t feel awful about it. It’s a genuine mistake that anyone could make after all and you’re actually trying to spread positive vibes. All publicity, blah blah.
I really like the look and sound of Shadows of the Short Days.
Lynn 😀
I often go on Edelweiss to see if covers are up yet, when they aren’t on Goodreads. I don’t consider Goodreads to be the definitive place to find covers, because often a cover will be officially revealed but it still won’t show on GR. But I will be more careful in the future…
Shadows of the Short Days looks terrific! As for the cover post, I think if it’s posted on Edelweiss or NetGalley or any other public site, then it’s fair game, unless it’s specifically marked as “cover not final”. You definitely shouldn’t feel bad about it!
Thanks Lisa, it must be really hard for publishers to keep covers secret if that’s what they’re aiming for:-)
I agree with other comments here, there was no way to know that the cover was “off limits” when it was on a site that literally anyone could get onto. All you can do is be respectful of the publisher’s request and move on!
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way, thanks Caitlin!
Ooh, I’m glad The Rosewater Redemption comes out so soon! They released the first two fairly close, so I guess they’re doing quick releases, I like it. 🙂 Sabbath does sound crazy! I really like the sound of Shadows of the Short Days as well.
I love when publishers have a quick publishing schedule between books:-)
Shadows Of The Short Days looks spectacular. Gotta check that out. And I would have thought you could share the cover if it is publicized on a site.
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I think it was just a mistake on Edelweiss’s part. Maybe I did the publisher a favor because otherwise they might not have known Edelweiss had it up??
Interesting choices. 🙂
Oh man, that’s a crazy thing to have happened to you. I always figured if the cover was up somewhere then it had been officially put out. I was wondering what happened to your post.
It was a great post too;-) Oh well, I will definitely be putting that cover in another Future Fiction when I get the go ahead!
Wow! That’s scary! yeah, I always assume if it’s on those places it is okay to share. Hmm, from this week I probably like that last cover best. Thanks for sharing!
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That last cover is fantastic, right? I’m hoping it gets a US publishing deal at some point.
Oh no! Last year-ish I shared the UK cover for Tower of Living and Dying on twitter because I saw it was up on Book Depository, but apparently it wasn’t officially released. I didn’t get in trouble or anything, but I I definitely didn’t feel very good about it.
And Seven Deadly sins look SO metal, I love it. 😀
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It’s a very strange feeling. I guess I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing, and if there’s an issue and someone says something, I’m always willing to revise/take down a post. But I do hate stepping on publisher’s toes!
You know how some covers make you want to read the book more? Weirdly, when I saw the cover to Sabbath earlier this week I had an opposite reaction. I’ve enjoyed Mamatas in the past, but ugh, I’m so turned off by the cover. It’s just so tacky goth 😛
Ha ha it’s very hard core goth, that’s for sure!
Gosh, Tammy, I am sorry that happened. That would completely rattle me, and I agree, you would assume those covers are ok once online. Back to this post, these covers are beautiful and engaging, and how impressive that the three Rosewater books are coming out so close together like this!
Oh well, I’m looking forward to the official reveal so I can share the cover “for reals.” It’s really pretty!
Magic in Iceland? Well, we may be keeping Book Depository busy. So sorry about last week’s post. I hope the publisher’s were understanding and I’m curious, was it taken off of Edelweiss as well? I agree with you, if it was there, it should have been fair game and since you got it fairly, the publishers should have let it be and let you post alone. After all, you were just creating buzz!
Also, for some reason the Sabbath is striking me as a heavy metal cover. Maybe it’s the title.
I haven’t checked Edelweiss yet, but I’m assuming the publicist who emailed me immediately contacted someone to take it down. Now I just need to wait for the “official” cover reveal to share the cover – again!
I’m sorry about your cover trouble! Still, I think that once a cover is on “recognized” sites like GR, or Edelweiss, it must have come from an official source, so I’m surprised at the reaction of the publisher. There are cases when the cover leaked over the internet is not the definitive one, but in those cases there is always a banner saying as much, which makes me think that this whole business was the result of some over-reaction on the part of the publisher… Anyway, no harm done and I hope those dark clouds have gone away by now! 🙂
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Yeah, no harm done. I just hate any kind of conflict with publishers so it wasn’t a good day for me!
No, I would also assume that if a cover is on a public website, it’s safe to use. But I guess sometimes mistakes are made by whoever posts them on those sites, so that’s not your fault! Sabbath and Shadows of the Short Days both sound great!
Sabbath and Shadows of the Short Days are both going on my tbr. 🙂