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.
I really fancy All Your Twisted Secrets – sounds just like an Agatha Christie.
Lynn 😀
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It definitely sounds like it has promise:-)
The cover for Dead Astronauts is awesome!
It’s definitely my favorite cover this week:-)
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.
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.
All Your Twisted Secrets sounds so good! I still need to read Station Eleven but The Glass Hotel really sounds like my kind of book.
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Station Eleven is amazing!
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.
Borne is definitely on the weird side, so you just have to go in knowing that.
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!
I’m a little leery about The Glass Hotel as well, I can’t get over how different it seems from Station Eleven…
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:))
The cover is just too much, but in a good way. I can’t wait!!
All Your Twisted Secrets sounds intriguing. Plus, the cover is fantastic!
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I agree, the cover is really different from other covers out there.
Love the cover for the first one. The third one sounds like a good read too! Great picks! You can check out my Wednesday post in the link below.
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Thanks Lisa:-)
I am always a sucker for locked room type books so All Your Twisted Secrets sounds like something I would like. 🙂
Me too, it sounds really twisty!
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
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:-)
All Your Twisted Secrets looks so amazing and I am preordering it. I love One of Us is Lying and Agatha Christie and this sounds like a book that I am going to love.
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I can’t wait to read it too, I might also have to preorder it:-)
All Your Twisted Secrets sounds fabulous and right up my alley haha!
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It’s definitely your type of book, Greg:-)
Jeff Vandermeer gets some great covers for his books.
He really does!
All three look and sound good. I hope you get to read them and love them all!
Thanks Tressa:-)
LOL that Vandermeer cover makes my eyes bleed! And I missed out on Station Eleven, so I might have to check out the Glass Hotel 🙂
It’s a crazy cover for sure:-)
All of these have great covers to go with the titles. Of course, The Dead Astronauts really hooked me! LOL
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It’s hard not to get hooked by the cover, whether you want to or not!
Oooh, new Jeff VanderMeer! I really need to make an effort to read some of his work at some point. Hope you enjoy these!
I need to read his backlist, he’s got a lot of books under his belt:-)
All Your Twisted Secrets really does sound twisty! I can’t wait to feel the thrill with this book.
I agree, it looks like it has great potential:-)
The cover for all your twisted secrets is really cool, but the book sounds super creepy I don’t think I would like it at all
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